Tom Cruise
has never shied away from upping the ante, but the next—and reportedly last—chapter in Ethan Hunt’s Mission: Impossible run will ask audiences for a little extra stamina in more ways than one. According to Paramount’s official confirmation, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
is breaking records even before it is released with the franchise’s longest runtime. 2023’s Dead Reckoning Part One previously held the record with a 163-minute length, but this year’s sequel clocks in at 169 minutes, or two hours and 49 minutes for those who like it colloquial terms.
Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie have treated each installment as a chance to top the previous one in stunt work and globe-trotting scale, and that has often led to an increasing runtime. The production for the new movie lasted over two years, and filmed in locations as far-flung as the Arctic Circle, South Africa, and multiple European capitals. Naturally, with a movie franchise like Mission: Impossible there is a belief that bigger is better – at least that is how Cruise approaches his stuntwork on the movies – but there also comes a time when it can all end up as being a little too much.
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Long runtimes have become common in event cinema—No Time to Die ran 2:43, John Wick: Chapter 4 2:49, Oppenheimer a full 3:00—but Final Reckoning’s huge length shows how much more expansive the franchise has become since its original 1996 release came in at a laughable 110 minutes. The escalation certainly mirrors Cruise’s love of developing movies with extended stunt sequences, and if this is the last time out for Ethan Hunt, that could just be because he couldn’t possibly top what is coming next month.
‘Mission: Impossible 8’ Is Looking to Make Up for ‘Dead Reckoning’s Box Office Disappointment
While Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning was not a box office flop by usual standards, the reported budget of the film soared due to the movie’s pandemic-related delays and reshoots, meaning that despite its total haul of just under $600 million, the result was nothing short of disappointing, and in many ways contributed to the delays – and name change – of The Final Reckoning.
Now, though, the franchise is looking to put that in the past with the biggest opening weekend of the franchise. Currently, Mission: Impossible – Fallout holds the record with $61.2 million, but Dead Reckoning was not too far behind with $54.7 million. The Final Reckoning is projected to make $100 million as it goes up against Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, which is also projecting a similar opening weekend result.
Even though all of this suggests that if this is to be Cruise’s final mission, it will also be one of his biggest, the box office can be tricky to predict with any certainty. Then there are the reports that this movie comes with an even higher price tag than its $290 million predecessor. With just a month to go before The Final Reckoning arrives in cinemas, we can expect to see Paramount going all out with their marketing on the film in the hope of getting as many people into cinemas as possible on May 23.
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