Even in Hollywood dominated by late sequels and intellectual property, everything comes to an end. And it is precisely on this point that the recent trailer for Mission Impossible: Final Judgment (yes, the redundancy is worth it). A delivery which was initially to be called Mission Impossible: Death Sentence Part 2but after the poor economic results of his predecessor forced the major has restructure goodbyes by Ethan Hunt, verbalized as a final mission in which the spy could lose everything. From now on, we will have to wait until 2025 to find out if the path that Tom Cruise took during almost 30 years has a bitter farewell or a more than deserved withdrawal from the field of action.
After a hard battle in last year’s box office and is preparing an exclusive premiere in the IMAX format for at least three weeks, it seems clear that Paramount Pictures does not want to make any missteps with the launch of Mission Impossible: Final Judgment. Well, one of disabilities Those that we talked about at the time and who explained in a certain sense the disappointing box office of the last opus, in addition to its elaborate budget, gave it the commerciality of being the first part of two conclusive titles. A strategy that is only applied when the good performance of the first film is assured. Whatever it is, it’s always a brief teasing commercial which reviews the trajectory of the protagonist, while at the same time showing a whole series of impressive scenes that point towards a spectacular to which, on the other hand, the IP has already more than accustomed us.
“Mission Impossible: Final Judgment”‘
Of course, the promotional teaser contains another crazy stunt from the three times Oscar nominee and a long career which already marks his action stories and even his flashbacks to his first mission in the film directed by Brian de Palma in 1996. 62 years oldeverything indicates that it is at least a momentary farewell to the saga (we have no doubt that Paramount will eventually recover it with another protagonist) for the intellectual property and, apparently, definitive for its actor.
The previous chapter ended with the great suspense of seeing how Ethan Hunt’s team manages to face the AI known as “the entity”. An ultimate technological tool capable of manipulating the world and posing a serious threat to global security. To control this type of technological nuclear bomb, our favorite IMF spies must find two master keys, with Hunt guarding one of them and having to descend to the destroyed submarine to end the threat. “Our lives are the sum of our decisions”“I need you to trust me. One last time”, are some of the phrases that can be heard in this first promotional material.
In addition to Cruise, Mission Impossible: Final Judgment It will star Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Shea Whigham and Angela Basset, among others. The final adventure will once again be written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie and will be released in theaters on May 23, 2025. A date which for the moment is not populated with real threats for its collection, since with a release far from the two main summer months, Paramount thus avoids confronting itself in head to head. big superhero premieres like Fantastic Four: first steps And Superman: Legacyand the return of the dinosaurs with Jurassic World: Renaissance which will arrive in July next year.
Tom Cruise returns to art house cinema
This farewell with Mission Impossible: Final Judgment We could already guess this from the plot of these last films in the saga, but also from Cruise’s future acting work. The actor of Magnolia will return to auteur cinema with the help of Alejandro González Iñárrituas well as a fantastic cast that will include Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, John Goddman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons and Sophia Wilde.
At the time, there was similar talk about Cruise’s participation in the new film. Quentin Tarantino. However, the director paralyzed what would be the last film of his career behind the cameras.
