Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is massive, messy, and a must-see action movie on Paramount+

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is, we're told, the final outing for Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt – and, while we're not convinced we've seen the back of Hunt the so-far-final Mission: Impossible movie sends him off in some style.

In our Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review we described it as "a massive [and] messy victory lap for cinema’s greatest action franchise". Indeed, while it's one of the best Mission: Impossible movies, the story is a bit convoluted and the first hour could have done with less exposition.

Still, there aren't many fans of the film series who turn up for the plot. Most are here for the set piece stunts that, unsurprisingly, are absolutely incredible, and it's this kind of action spectacle that'll be sorely missing in the future if Cruise has called time on his almost 30-year run as the iconic spy.

Why Mission: Impossible 8 is a must-see movie

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Tom Cruise - YouTube

Watch On

In addition to Cruise, there's an absolutely stellar and stacked cast. Cruise's fellow franchise stalwarts Henry Czerny, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg are also back for their characters' final hurrah, and there are plenty of other new and returning faces to keep tabs on, too.

Indeed, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, and Pom Klementieff reprise their roles from Mission: Impossible 7. Meanwhile, newcomers come in the form of Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, and Angela Bassett.

Across the review-based divide, different outlets gave their verdict on Hunt's eighth mission. Empire Magazine gave the film four out of five stars, saying: "A tense, knotty opening act yields to some of Tom Cruise’s most impressive stunts yet, ending the film – and perhaps the series – on a high". Elsewhere, GamesRadar/Total Film was fairly impressed too, offering three and a half stars and adding "[it] wraps up this spy franchise in spectacular style with Tom Cruise in peak condition, even if its villain lacks terror."

The Guardian was even more glowing in its praise; the UK newspaper giving The Final Reckoning the full five stars and comparing Tom Cruise to the comedy legend Harold Lloyd. "It is a wildly silly, wildly entertaining adventure", its reviewer noted, before adding Cruise is "forever young, forever fit, never saying die in the face of this preposterous Armageddon clock. What a rush!"

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is streaming now on Paramount+, aka one of the world's best streaming services.

Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!

And, of course, you can also follow TechRadar on TikTok for news, reviews, unboxings in video form, and get regular updates from us on WhatsApp too.