Tom Cruise brought his final outing as Ethan Hunt to Leicester Square for the UK premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the eighth film in a series begun in 1996.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning held its UK premiere in Leicester Square on Thursday 15 May 2025, the night after the film screened at Cannes.
Tom Cruise headed the cast on the carpet. Born in Syracuse, New York, in 1962, he made his screen debut with a small part in Endless Love in 1981, and Risky Business and Top Gun made him a leading man within five years. The Color of Money, A Few Good Men, Interview with the Vampire and Jerry Maguire followed, and he has been nominated for four competitive Academy Awards. He holds an Honorary Palme d’Or and an Academy Honorary Award, and his films have grossed more than $13 billion worldwide. He has flown as a licensed pilot since 1994 and often performs his own stunts.
The Final Reckoning was the eighth film in the series, which opened in 1996, and Cruise’s last as the agent Ethan Hunt. Christopher McQuarrie directed it from a screenplay written with Erik Jendresen, as a sequel to Dead Reckoning, and Cruise produced it with him. The story set Hunt and his team against the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence.
McQuarrie joined the cast in London with Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, Pom Klementieff and Hannah Waddingham. Paramount released the film in British cinemas later that month, closing a run of nearly thirty years for the character.