A big movie needs a big score, and there's no bigger movie than "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning," the eighth entry in the action franchise Tom Cruise and Brian De Palma inaugurated almost 30 years ago.

Being a spy is like watching paint dry. And they don’t have to be in the best shape. The tooth capsule thing? Real. A former spy tells us what Tom Cruise gets right and wrong in the franchise.

In the new installment of Tom Cruise’s action film series, “ Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning ,” a godlike AI called the Entity has the world on the brink of a nuclear apocalypse, and a doomsday cult is rooting for the AI. (Spoiler alert: Cruise saves everyone.)

Angela Bassett made history as the first woman to ever deliver a mission briefing in the "Mission: Impossible" film franchise with her scene in "The Final Reckoning" "That came to me late," Bassett, who plays President Erika Sloane,

The two films delivered the biggest Memorial Day picnic in history at the box office, while 'Lilo' supplanted Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' as the holiday's top opener of all time, among numerous other feats.

Some of Technicolor-owned MPC's final VFX work appears in 'Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning' and 'Lilo & Stitch'

It has been more than 10 years since movie theaters have seen a Memorial Day weekend this huge for the box office, but thanks to the combined efforts of Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch,” Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” and multiple holdovers and specialty titles, 2025 has set a new record for the holiday.

The overall framework of the Rabbit’s Foot and its history would have been a super easy way to confirm Ethan Hunt’s fight against The Syndicate as a career-long chess game. What’s more, that suggested plotline would have strengthened another legacy character’s return into something much more powerful.