Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning‘s New Trailer Stuns And Awes

Here’s the trailer for Chris McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, finally out after its CinemaCon presentation last week as part of Paramount Pictures showcase. Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is so close on his currently very impossible mission and it’s always knuckle bracing to see that man run to save the world.

And boy can he run. There’s a lot to pick up on from where we left off in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Cruise is going to really come up against even more seemingly insurmountable odds. The new trailer really emphasises that it seems like this might really be it for Ethan this time (you can never know in the world of Hollywood blockbuster franchising though), playing up the links and parallels across Cruise’s whole Mission: Impossible history as he prepares for his latest mission… should he choose to accept it.

Then there’s the epic stunts lined up for fans of the franchise which pushes the man to almost living superhero status. We’re eagerly anticipating Cruise’s acrobatic encounter with a 1930s Boeing Stearman biplane, but it looks like this isn’t the only wild stunt we’re going to be seeing Cruise do (beyond all the running).

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The film also stars Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg as Hunt’s team. Hayley Atwell returns as the elusive thief Grace as the film’s race to defeat an AI enemy (so timely) comes to a likely to be very explosive end. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opens May 23.

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