Tom Cruise takes center stage in new behind-the-scenes looks atMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoningthat tease his underwater stunts. After first playing superspy Ethan Hunt in the originalMission: Impossiblein 1996, Cruise returned as the character last year forMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which saw him facing off against an AI threat known as The Entity. TheMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningtrailerhas now been released, teasing Cruise’s potential final outing as Hunt and an abundance of stunts, including an underwater sequence.
The officialMission: Impossibleaccount on X, formerly Twitter, now shares a new tease for the underwater sequence inThe Final Reckoning.The video features Cruise wearing a scuba suit and clearly concentrating very hardas his face mask is fastened on. After fist-bumping members of the crew and giving everyone a thumbs-up, Cruise enters the water, with the video highlighting the danger of whatever stunt he’s about to do. Check it out below:
Cruisehas also shared his own look at an underwater stunt fromThe Final Reckoningin the form of a behind-the-scenes image. Cruise’s post, also on X, features the actor taking a breath from a safety diver’s oxygen tank while underwater, with a large light shining in the background. Check out the new image below:
“The training and preparation we put into this film is a culmination of all before it,” Cruise writes in his caption. “From the depths, to the skies, I can’t wait to share more with you.”
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The Final Reckoningwon’t be the first entry in the franchise to feature an underwater stunt.Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation(2015) also features an extended underwater sequencein which Hunt attempts to input crucial security details into a computer database. The sequence involves Cruise holding his breath for about six-and-a-half minutes, which was an actor record until Kate Winslet surpassed that while working onAvatar: The Way of Water(2022).
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The trailer forThe Final Reckoninghas already revealed that the underwater sequences in the movie are connected to the Sevastopol submarine, which houses the key to destroyingThe Entity.Hunt will seemingly have to dive to the bottom of the Bering Sea to access the submarine, and the trailer hints that he eventually loses his suit and becomes unconscious. This sequence will seemingly be a major action set piece in the movie, and Cruise’s caption suggests that filming it involved applying what they had learned from makingRogue Nation.
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Though Cruise holding his breath for over six minutes while filmingRogue Nationis impressive,that sequence was arguably undercut by the fact that most of the environment he’s filming in is CGI. VFX and CGI will certainly play a role inThe Final Reckoningas well, just as they did in theacclaimedMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Cruise, after all, isn’t actually filming his underwater scenes in frigid arctic waters, and VFX will have to be used to add in aspects of the environment. Still, the upcoming installment hopefully ends up feeling a little more real.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoningcurrently sports a 96% onRotten Tomatoes, the second-highest score of the franchise afterMission: Impossible – Fallout(98%).
WithMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningalso set to feature car and foot chases and a stunning aerial sequence,it has the potential to be the best and most action-packed installment in the franchise yet. With the film’s release date approaching, the marketing is clearly ramping up, and audiences can expect more looks at Cruise’s death-defying stunts.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning follows Ethan Hunt and his team as they pursue a formidable AI called the Entity that has compromised global intelligence networks. With new allies and a haunting figure from Hunt’s past in pursuit, they must act quickly to avert a global catastrophe.
