Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Tom Cruise’s franchise finale earns 5 minutes standing ovation at the Cannes 2025 premiere

A still from Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning | Image via Paramount Pictures
A still from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | Image via Paramount Pictures

Tom Cruise has portrayed IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the action spy film Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. The film is the 8th installment in the successful franchise and a direct sequel to 2023's Dead Reckoning Part One. It will be released theatrically on May 23, 2025, by Paramount Pictures. Here's the official synopsis:

"Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world’s governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan’s past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever."

The film has received a long standing ovation at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.


Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning gets 5-minute standing ovation at Cannes 2025

Ahead of its theatrical release, Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was showcased at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It was screened on May 14 in an out-of-competition section. Viewers at the venue seem to have loved the film, as the film received a five-minute-long standing ovation. A video from the event shows people at the venue standing up and clapping continuously as Cruise and the team thank everyone.

It has been reported that the film might be Cruise's last outing as Ethan Hunt. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the film is written by him and Erik Jendresen, while the producers include Cruise and McQuarrie. The cast of the film includes,

  • Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
  • Hayley Atwell as Grace
  • Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
  • Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
  • Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge
  • Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane
  • Esai Morales as Gabriel
  • Pom Klementieff as Paris
  • Mariela Garriga as Marie
  • Pasha D. Lychnikoff as Captain Koltsov
  • Holt McCallany as Serling
  • Janet McTeer as Walters
  • Nick Offerman as General Sydney
  • Hannah Waddingham as Admiral Neely

In an interview with Variety at Cannes, Tom Cruise was asked about the franchise's future. He said,

“I’d rather just people see it and enjoy and we’ve had an amazing time doing it and it’s been a lot of fun and I just want you all to enjoy it. Enjoy this and know everything is the culmination has come to this moment right now.”

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