Watch: Tom Cruise’s 90 Second ‘Mission: Impossible’ Franchise Recap

“Light the fuse…” Paramount+ has revealed a Super Bowl TV spot for the Mission: Impossible movies. Our guess is that this was originally meant to be a big preview for Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part Two, which was set to release in June 2024 following Part One last summer. Thanks to the strikes last year, that sequel has been delayed for another year entirely – and they aren’t calling it “Dead Reckoning Part Two” anymore either. We’ll have to wait for an update on this one – which is expected around May 2025 now. In the meantime, it looks like they kept this airtime and made this Mission: Impossible franchise recap video instead. Tom Cruise’s account tweeted out the video with this amusing note: “It’s hard to put all 7 films into 90 seconds, but we certainly had fun trying.” This 90-second video features a few of the most iconic stunts: the Burj Khalifa, the airplane, the motorcycle cliff, the train in the tunnel, and a few others, but not all of them. It’s much more focused on all the action than story! I’m still hopeful that the 8th movie will end up being awesome, too. So what do you think: is this really the greatest action franchise of all-time? // Continue Reading ›