Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Andie MacDowell poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ at the 78th international film festival,

Tom Cruise’s latest addition to the Mission: Impossible franchise — launched this evening in Cannes. Cruise was present in Cannes alongside director Christopher McQuarrie and co-stars Hayley Atwell, Angela Bassett,

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.

Tom Cruise honored with the prestigious BFI Fellowship in London! Read about the heartfelt tribute from Christopher McQuarrie and Cruise's touching acceptance speech.

Despite much, much exposition dropping in brow-furrowing war room scenes, that's never remotely clear. Actually, the script by Christopher McQuarrie (who also directs) and Erik Jendresen makes a lot of declarations about the Entity's intentions ...