{"id":4841,"date":"2026-08-18T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:49:10","slug":"movie-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/movie-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/1\/1f\/Mission_Impossible_%E2%80%93_The_Final_Reckoning_Poster.jpg\/250px-Mission_Impossible_%E2%80%93_The_Final_Reckoning_Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning\" width=\"250\" height=\"371\" \/>Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2025<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 169 minutes \/ 2.82 hours<\/p>\n<p>When a film franchise like <em>Mission: Impossible<\/em> reaches its conclusion, you hope the finale is a fitting send-off. <em>Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/em> (2025) splits this duty with its predecessor, <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/movie-mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-1-2023\/\"><strong><em>Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2023) and does a fairly good job of maxing out the action and \u201cimpossible\u201d sequences the franchise is known for. If anything, it\u2019s nice to know that there\u2019s a definitive end to these movies instead of letting them continue in perpetuity. Now I just have to wonder what the next \u201cbig stunt\u201d movie franchise will be to replace this one.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the modern hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential to end the world in a variety of ways, choosing to make the AI the final villain for the franchise was a smart move. What better way to show how impossible a mission is than to have the opponent be better at basically every single thing involved with spy craft? I also think the submarine sequence was one of the tensest and best set pieces the franchise has ever created, so it\u2019s a good thing they don\u2019t have to top it for any follow-on movies.<\/p>\n<p>About the only thing wrong with this movie is that it\u2019s not very deep. It\u2019s fun, there\u2019s plenty of action, and Tom Cruise gets his cardio in. But at the end of the day, you know the world will be saved because of the efforts of these individuals. Other franchise finishers like <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/28\/movie-no-time-to-die-2021\/\"><strong><em>No Time to Die<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2021) and <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/movie-john-wick-chapter-4-2023\/\"><strong><em>John Wick: Chapter 4<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2023) also had to contend with killing off characters for the finality of it all\u2014something which felt restrained in this movie. It\u2019s sad there won\u2019t be any more <em>Mission: Impossible<\/em> movies in this form, but we\u2019ll see if Hollywood\u2019s need to reboot franchises will hit this one in a few years.<\/p>\n<p>A fitting end to a great stunt-filled franchise, I give <em>Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning Year: 2025 Rating: PG-13 Length: 169 minutes \/ 2.82 hours When a film franchise like Mission: Impossible reaches its conclusion, you hope the finale is a fitting send-off. Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning (2025) splits this duty with its predecessor, Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning (2023) and does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[4189,18,592,1526,4605,13,8,1530,4607,4606,17],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-movie","tag-4189","tag-action","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-mission-impossible","tag-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-stunts","tag-submarine","tag-the-final-reckoning","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}