Cannes Film Festival 2025: In "Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning," Tom Cruise is caught in the nets of artificial intelligence

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So it's on the Croisette that Tom Cruise is reckking – after the first part of the diptych in 2023 – the Reckoning bike for a new lap, the eighth of the impossible mission since 1996. The stakes of the previous opus, Dead Reckoning , will be recalled for the back of the class, who prefer mobile gaming to larger-than-life live action. He concocts an end-of-the-world scenario that is all the more distressing because a malevolent artificial intelligence (AI), cold as death, has taken the place of the cohort of more or less frenetic terrorists who populate the series. Its goal: to eradicate the human race by taking control of its weapons of mass destruction.

The bluish magma that represents the said AI aka the Entity is doubled by a human sidekick, Gabriel (Esai Morales) – a fallen archangel, need we remind you? – who is, admittedly, totally subservient to it but has the advantage of a more cinematic presence. The goal of the mission will therefore be, for Ethan Hunt and his team, to recover a key giving access to the Sevastopol , a Russian nuclear submarine destroyed by the AI ​​and lying under the polar ice cap, in which is a box that contains the source code of the AI. The key is thus recovered in the first part, it is up to the second to stage the recovery of the box which will allow – by virtue of a rigorously incomprehensible technological operation – to deceive the AI ​​and trap it in a key, like an evil genie in a flask.

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