“ Tom Cruise has done it again!” That’s the very early verdict from press screenings for the Hollywood icon’s latest film, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, with the film variously described as “astonishing,” “jaw-dropping,” “insane” and the “action movie of the summer.”

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and Pom Klementieff, hits cinemas on May 23, 2025. For more, check out our rankings of the best Mission: Impossible movies.

The Final Reckoning" has been revealed to members of the press, and first reactions are praising the film as an exhilarating end to the historic action franchise. Film critic Courtney Howard wrote of the film on X,