Speculation abounds that this might be the franchise’s final chapter, fueled by both the title change from the originally planned Dead Reckoning Part Two to The Final Reckoning and a poignant moment in the trailer where Hunt asks Luther to trust him “one last time.”

For comparison, the first Mission: Impossible movie had a runtime of 1 hour 50 minutes - which seemed so very lengthy compared to today's nearly three-hour movie-lengths (which is something I personally never thought would become normalized, but I'm going to blame Zack Snyder for that one).

Picking up from Dead Reckoning Part One, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt now holds the key to confronting the formidable AI known as the Entity – his most perilous adversary yet. The film propels the plot forward as Hunt must gather his team to locate the sunken Russian submarine containing the Entity’s source code, the key to its destruction.