Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

After the high-altitude madness of Fallout (2018), Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie return with the rumored final chapter in the Ethan Hunt saga: Mission: Impossible – Eclipse Protocol. This speculative sequel is everything fans could want—and more. Bigger stunts. Sharper twists. Deeper stakes.

Picking up two years after the nuclear near-miss in Kashmir, Eclipse Protocol opens with Hunt living off-grid, emotionally fractured and under scrutiny. The IMF is disbanded—again—and a new global AI threat codenamed ORACLE has emerged, capable of hijacking digital systems, rewriting truth, and erasing identities in real-time.

When a ghost from Ethan’s past resurfaces—Solomon Lane’s covert successor, known only as “The Architect”—he’s forced to reunite with his scattered team: Luther, Benji, Ilsa, and a newly reinstated Brandt. But this time, their mission isn’t to stop an attack. It’s to prevent their own reality from being rewritten—one digital illusion at a time.

McQuarrie’s fictional direction in Eclipse Protocol is darker, more cerebral. The stakes feel intimate yet existential. In one particularly striking scene, Hunt finds himself in a digital recreation of his own past, unsure what is real and what is designed to break him. This is no longer just about running, jumping, or falling—it’s about identity and truth in a post-reality world.

But don’t worry—the action still stuns. Cruise reportedly performs a halo-skydive into a spiraling solar storm, a gravity-defying motorcycle chase across the Arctic, and a zero-gravity fight aboard a plummeting orbital elevator. These stunts—if real—would rival anything in Fallout or Top Gun: Maverick.

Supporting performances shine. Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust gains more complexity and conflict, while Simon Pegg’s Benji provides both comic relief and unexpected emotional weight. A standout newcomer, rumored to be played by Florence Pugh, plays a morally gray MI6 agent with ties to both the Architect and Hunt’s past.

At its core, Eclipse Protocol is a meditation on the cost of deception—personal and global. Can Ethan Hunt still save the world if he no longer knows who he is?

If this is indeed the final ride, Mission: Impossible – Eclipse Protocol would be a fitting, furious farewell. A smart, stylish, and thought-provoking chapter in a franchise that continues to redefine action cinema.