Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: The Final Installment of the Legendary Saga by Christopher McQuarrie

After awarding him an honorary Palme d’or in 2022, the Festival de Cannes is delighted to welcome back Tom Cruise on Wednesday May 14, for the world premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. This will be the third appearance of the American actor and producer on the Croisette, after Far and Away in 1992 and Top Gun: Maverick in 2022.

Also, Christopher McQuarrie, who collaborated with the actor and director on the last four Mission: Impossible films, is back for Rendez-vous with…, giving festival-goers the opportunity to get some insight into the career of someone who has made thrillers his trademark and action cinema the work of a master craftsman.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which was released in 2023. In the film, Tom Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt, the franchise’s iconic character, must fight a new, and particularly formidable, enemy: an AI called “The Entity”. This latest installment may stir up certain emotions for the audience. In fact, the title (“The Final Reckoning”), as well as the trailer, which recounts a series of flashbacks and memories from previous installments, suggest that it could signal Hunt’s final mission. The eight films of the spy saga have been marked by spectacular stunts performed by Tom Cruise, the game of masks, intrigue set in the heart of major capital cities around the world and much more. Its sobering synopsis is summed up as follows: “Our lives are the sum of our choices.”