Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 23, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 57 Critic Reviews
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39
Mixed:
16
Negative:
2
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60
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 23, 2025
What we do care about, and what “Final Reckoning” finally delivers on after an overly expository first hour, is watching Tom do stuff. Set pieces involving a sunken submarine and buzzing biplanes amply fulfill the franchise’s main selling point. Read full review
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The New YorkerJustin ChangMay 22, 2025
A movie needn’t be a work of art—and "The Final Reckoning," the baggiest, least satisfying film of the McQuarrie quartet, falls well short of the mark. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 15, 2025
It’s big, extravagant, and at times very beautiful to look at. The story is the problem: packed with expository dialogue, it feels as if it were written to be digested in 10- or 15-minute bites. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearMay 15, 2025
Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning feels like a conclusion to 30 years worth of proving that yes, you still can conjure up a certain vintage strain of Hollywood magic. It also feels like the end of an era. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonMay 15, 2025
Cruise is reason audiences will, and should, see Final Reckoning on a large and loud screen. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMay 14, 2025
Too murky. Too little access to the character’s face. It takes a long, long time for the film to redeem itself with the biplane stunt you’ve seen on the poster. Read full review
60
IGNClint GageMay 14, 2025
While its action is reliably thrilling and a few of its most exciting sequences are sure to hold up through the years, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tries to deal with no less than the end of every living thing on the planet – and suffers because of it. The somber tone and melodramatic dialogue miss the mark of what’s made this franchise so much fun for 30 years, but the door is left open for more impossible missions and the hope that this self-serious reckoning isn’t actually final. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 14, 2025
The old masters of early movie stunts who Cruise and McQuarrie so obviously admire knew that sometimes simpler was better. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMay 14, 2025
If it’s going to be the last we see of one of the most consistently entertaining franchises to come out of Hollywood in the past few decades — a subject about which Cruise and McQuarrie have remained vague — it’s a disappointing farewell with a handful of high points courtesy of the indefatigable lead actor. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 22, 2025
It’s only a movie, of course, not one of the better ones in this sometimes entertaining but occasionally muddled franchise. Taken to heart as a movie of its moment, and not just experienced as “a ride,” it’s too bad they had to go out with a bummer. Read full review
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Original-CinLiz BraunMay 20, 2025
Not to put too fine a point on this or anything, but Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is an interminable slog. Read full review
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LooperAlistair RyderMay 15, 2025
It aims to be a nostalgic send-off, but the execution is muddled, forgetting that nobody ever came to these movies for the plot so much as the spectacle its amateur stuntman star provided in droves. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalKyle SmithMay 14, 2025
Too often, the self-serving mission of making Mr. Cruise look cool clashes with the audience-serving mission of making sense. The balance between vanity and sanity leans the wrong way. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 14, 2025
“We make our own destiny,” someone intones during the film’s closing voiceover, and by the end of Ethan Hunt’s story, it’s hard not to take those words to heart. I only wish that Cruise and McQuarrie had managed to make a better one. Read full review
50
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaMay 14, 2025
And yet, The Final Reckoning is too messy, too awkward, too clumsy. It somehow feels overlong and inert even as it never slows down. Read full review
40
BBCNicholas BarberMay 14, 2025
It's just a shame that the series' farewell had to be so solemn – and so silly. Read full review
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