Summary
There’s every chance that the next Mission: Impossible movie will be the last - it is called The Final Reckoning after all. If so, its review scores suggest the franchise will be ending on a lower note than Mission: Impossible fans have grown accustomed to, although still far from the worst they have ever experienced.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning kicks off a summer of blockbusters whenit arrives in theaters on August 01, 2025. Reviewers have already had the chance to check out Tom Cruise’s eighth outing as Ethan Hunt, and with 136 reviews and counting,the movie is currently sitting onan 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
That might not sound all that bad, and that’s because it’s not. The Final Reckoning is still comfortably Certified Fresh. However, not only has every single Mission: Impossible movie since 2011 been reviewed better, but you need to climb up to a lofty 94 percent before you find the next one. That leaves the eighth, and possibly final, MI movie in fifth place when ranking all eight movies by their average review score.
The Final Reckoning Is Off To A Shaky Start On The Reviews Front
I Can’t Imagine That’s Going To Hurt It At The Box Office, Though
The only Mission: Impossible movies with worse review scores than Final Reckoning are the first three. The original movie scored 65 percent, and its sequel four years later suffered an even worse fate with a 57 percent. Numbers a series would struggle to bounce back from today, but here we are, almost 30 years later, preparing to go to the cinema for an eighth time to see another Mission: Impossible movie.
Even though every movie in the series from Ghost Protocol to 2023’s Dead Reckoning has scored a 94 or higher, that doesn’t mean The Final Reckoning is a bust. Far from it, with a score of 81. Public opinion can also differ greatly from review scores. Just takeThe Last of Usseason two. Critics have given it s 95, but its fan score is way down at 39. Unfortunately,review bombing by those who have a problem with its same sex relationship scenesappear to be the reason for that.
While Mission: Impossible’s latest movie has dropped the series' average, Bloodlines has given Final Destination’s aggregate score a big bump.The first movie in the series for more than a decade debuted with a 93 percent, a full 30 points higher than any Final Destination movie to have come before it.Thunderbolts also reviewed well, hopefully signaling a return to form for theMCU.
