Take a deep breath and steel your nerves: “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is coming to streaming. The latest entry in the classic action-adventure franchise starring Tom Cruise will debut exclusively on Paramount+ on Dec. 4.
Starring Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg and more, “The Final Reckoning” picks up in the wake of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning,” as Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his globetrotting team of agents continue their mission to destroy the Entity, a mysterious and all-powerful AI, before it falls into the wrong hands.
Other returning cast members include Briggs (Shea Wingham), Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett), Luther (Ving Rhames), Gabriel (Eassi Morales) and Paris (Pom Klementieff). Franchise newcomers Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Katy O’Brian, Holt McCallany and Tramell Tillman also star. “The Final Reckoning” is the eighth installment in the 29-year-old franchise, which began with Brian De Palma’s original 1996 film.
“The Final Reckoning” premiered with a special, out-of-competition presentation on May 14 at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, with Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie both in attendance. McQuarrie has helmed the past three installments of the “Mission Impossible” franchise, including “Rogue Nation” in 2015, “Fallout” in 2018, and “Dead Reckoning” in 2023.
Following the Cannes premiere, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” hit theaters in the United States May 23. Though “The Final Reckoning” marked the first time a “Mission Impossible” film has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Cruise is no stranger to Cannes, having previously attended for Ron Howard’s “Far and Away” in 1992 and “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022.
