Those with Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning on their watchlist should expect to strap in and buckle up for a long Tom Cruise adventure, as its runtime has been revealed. The upcoming movie will be the longest in the franchise, coming in at slightly under 170 minutes, or two hours and 49 minutes, to be exact.
The figure was confirmed by Paramount directly (via ComicBook.com), which would make the sequel six minutes longer than the previous record holder, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The 2023 feature clocked two hours and 43 minutes, or 163 minutes, with The Final Reckoning set to pick up immediately where it ended.
While story specifics are kept under wraps, the film will follow IMF Agent Hunt (Cruise) and his team as they attempt to stop his longtime adversary, Gabriel (Esai Morales), from destroying the world with a powerful AI system called the Entity. It’s expected to be the final movie with Cruise in the lead role, complete with plenty of “heart-stopping” action and bold stunts executed by the action star himself, such as dangling from an inverted plane.
With no plans to retire, however, it remains to be seen if this will truly be Cruise’s swansong. Despite the 169-minute runtime, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning isn’t the longest-running film of his career — that honour goes to Paul Thomas Anderson’s 188-minute movie Magnolia.
Joining Cruise in the highly anticipated sequel are returning cast from prior films, including Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Haley Atwell, Shea Wigham, Pom Klementieff, Angela Basset, and more. Christopher McQuarrie is back in the director’s seat, pulling double duty as scriptwriter alongside Erik Jendresen.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning hits the silver screen on 23 May 2025.
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