Tom Cruise’s Supposed Last Mission as Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Gets a Streaming Release Date
The final reckoning is finally headed to streaming. Tom Cruise’s supposed final outing as Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ on December 4, just in time for a big holiday watch.
Alongside Cruise, the film stars returning cast members Simon Pegg and Hayley Atwell, Shea Wigham, Angela Bassett, Ving Rhames, Eassi Morales, and Pom Klementieff. Several new folks joined the fray as well, including Tramell Tillman, Hannah Waddingham, Katy O’Brien, Nick Offerman, and Holt McCallany.
The film, which is the eighth in a 29-year-franchise that began with Brian de Palma’s Mission: Impossible in 1996, picks up after the end of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and continues to follow Hunt and his associates as they try to destroy the Entity, an immensely powerful AI program, before the bad guys nab it.
Final Reckoning premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in an out of competition screening and then made its way to theaters days later on May 23. Interestingly enough, the last time Cruise attended Cannes with a project before that was for Top Gun: Maverick in 2022, so it’s kind of funny (in a great way) that his latest appearances at the prestigious film festival were for high-octane commercial action projects.
Chris McQuarrie directed the film from a script he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. McQuarrie directed the three previous installments of the franchise — 2015’s Rogue Nation, 2018’s Fallout, and 2023’s Dead Reckoning — so it was fun to see him take the helm for Cruise’s last outing as an elite spy.
IGN’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review returned a 6/10. We said: “The action thrills, but the soapy tone keeps greatness just out of reach for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” Be sure to check out IGN’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Ending Explained article to find out if this really is the end of Tom Cruise’s M:I series.
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Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
