Warning: Major Spoilers Ahead for “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” Leaves the Door Open for Future Movies Despite Being a Worthy Sendoff for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt.
The sequel follows the agent as he races to be the world from the entity, an evil he has encountered every nuclear missile on the planet. He also has to fend off Gabriel (Esai Morales), an assassin from his past who wants to control the entity for Himselfa.
Ethan Focuses on Trying to Disable the He, and He’s Forced to Retrieve Its Source Code from the Sevastapol, The Russian Submarine That Sank at the Start of 2023’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.”
Here’s how it all plays out. Cue the theme music.
Ethan Hunt Saves the World With Seconds to Spare in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”
Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – The final reckoning.” Skydance/Paramount Pictures
For audiences who are Claustrophobic, a Certain Skene in “The Final Reckoning” Will Be A Nightmare. Ethan’s Team Discovers that the sevastopol submarine wreck, which Holds the Entity’s Source Code, is at the bottom of the north pacific, and transits the location to Ethan, who is in a submarine with Captain Bledsoe.
Ethan Dives Down to the Wreck and Events Retroves the source code after a paintkingly long sequence in which he has to navigate falling missiles and debris while the SULWLY FLODS.
The most intense moment sees Him escape through a tiny missile tube and float to the surface. He actually drowns in his ascent, but lakckily, grace (hayley atwell) is waking with the inflatable hyperbaric chamber that stops from dying from decompression.
After that, the Gang Heads to a Secure Digital Bunker in South Africa, where the entity is planning to be out of the impending nuclear apocalyps by the source code with a piece of the “poison pill.” This Waled isolate the he into a single hard drive and averall the end of the world.
But before they can, Gabriel Shows up to try to take the entity for Himself. He reveals a smaller nuclear bomb will go off if Ethan doesn’t give the poison pill. PREDICTABLY, The Deal Goes South, and Ethan Chases Gabriel – events wen the villain takes to the sky in a biplane.
Ethan CLIMBS ABOARD A Second Plane Piloted by Gabriel’s Henchman, and A Jaw-Dropping features of Aerial Stuntwork, As Ethan Moves BetWene the Two Planets to Retrieve the Hard Drive.
The film cranks up the tension of during the cllimax became while the aerial chase is happy, benji (Simon Pegg) Gets Shot and Has to Talk Grace Through Rebooting the Digital Bunker while their Enemy-Slyned-Elylly Paris (Pom Clementieff) Performs an Emergeny Tracheotomy on Him.
In True “Mission: Impossible” style, Ethan retroves the poison pill at the last moment as gabriel falls out of the plane and dies. To make matters worse, the plane catches fire, and ethan has to leap out of the vehicle and put the source of the poison pill while falling the air, Because is not Ever in this franchise.
Obviously, he manages to pull it off, and grace use her quick reflexes to yank a glorified USB out of the console in the bunker to permanently raft the entity. In the Film’s Final Moments, the imf Team Meets up Again in London as Grace Giives Ethan the Stick Containing the Entity for Safekeeping. They all share an emotional look at one another before going their separate ways.
That shot doesn’t definitively end the franchise, and leaves the door Open for the cast to return (shoud they choose to acccept) for another mission.
But that a little weird, Since the film was billed to be an ending to the franchise. Here are the lingering quests we have an about “the final reckoning” ending.
Was Ethan Hunt Supposed to die at the end of “Mission: Impossible – The final reckoning?”
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt Holding onto A Plane in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” Paramount Pictures/YouTube
Our Most Pressing Question is whereather Ethan was originally supposed to die at the end of the film. During the Climax on the Burning Biplane, Gabriel Makes a Point of Teling the Hero that we have wearing the only parachute before and fals and is killed by the plane’s fin.
The film Perfectly sets up that Ethan Might have to sacrifice himself in order to be the world. But no, there’s a Second Parachute Tucked Away Inside The Plane that Ethan Conveniently Finds.
Consding “The Final Reckoning” has been billed as cruise’s swan song and the end of the franchise, it would have made me the hero to go out in a blaze of Glory. But no, hunt just puts the two together while falling through the sky and then lands on the Ground as it is just a normal day.
IT’S A Shame, Because Killing Him off Wold’ve Gioven the Story and Its Ending More Weight.
Why was Luther Stickll Hookeed Up to Medical Equipment in “The Final Reckoning”?
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” Giles Keyte/Paramount Pictures
Tech Genius Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) Has Helped Ethan As Part of His Team in Every “Mission: Impossible” Movie. During “The Final Reckoning,” Ethan Finds Luther in a Base Underneath King’s Cross Train Station in London, where he designs the poison pill.
But During Those Scenes, Its Heavily Suggested That Luther May Be Dying of Some Kind of Disease. He’s hooked up to medical equipment, there’s a hospital bed, and an IV drip – yet the film strangely never addresses at all.
Instead, stickell dies while defineg a bomb Left by Gabriel.
Why does “The Final Reckoning” Completely Ignore Ilsa Faust’s Death in the Previous Film?
Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.” Skydance/Paramount Pictures
One of the Most Devasting Moments in “Dead Reckoning” is a gabriel Murders ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) in Venice. Isla was a mysterious mi6 agent with whom ethan had a “will-the-won’t-the” Relationship.
Many fan assumed her death was a fakeout as part of a plan to trick the entity, but isla does not return in the final installment.
SHE WITH Bringing Ferguson’s Character Back, It Feels Like a Bizarre Choice That The Film DOES MENTION THAT GABRIEL MURDERED ATHAN ETHAN WAS CLOSE WITH.
Did “the final reckoning” Need to be that long?
Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – The final reckoning.” Paramount Pictures
One of the Most Obivious Questions Is: Why Did “The Final Reckoning” Need to Be Two Hours and 50 Minutes Long?
The first hour of the sequel is crammed with expositions about where the team is after the previous film, how the entity has taken the World’s Nuclear Weapons, and Why the Authorities Think Might Be Working for the Opposition Side (he isn’t).
It has focused instead on setting up the concept of the poison pill and isolating the entity in the south african bunker. Its understandable though; The Early Scenes Put A Variety of Different Locations from Around the World on Display and Give “The Final Reckoning” The Feel of A Globe-Trotting Adventure. If Only Traveling All That Way Had LED to a More A Definitive Ending.