{"id":119101,"date":"2025-05-21T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119101\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:35:08","slug":"impossible-the-final-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119101\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the eighth and likely final Mission: Impossible hits cinema screens today, KentOnline has taken a look back at when Tom Cruise flew into county to film scenes for the blockbuster.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Hollywood A-lister short part of the action spy franchise in Medway back in October 2022, he did it, as ever, in fittingly dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise filmed part of Mission: Impossible \u2013\u00a0The Final Reckoning in\u00a0Medway. Picture: Olie Myburgh<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old landed in a private helicopter near the Medway Council building<\/a> and was greeted by workers screaming, \u2018Tom, we love you!\u2019<\/p>\n

He was seen to turn and wave back at the admiring fans.<\/p>\n

The day before, the Top Gun actor was seen flying to Chatham\u2019s Historic Dockyard<\/a>, where a film crew<\/a> had taken over.<\/p>\n

For the shoot, a giant lighting rig was set up near the entrance to the ropery building where a walkway had been cordoned off.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, around a dozen trailers were pictured at the tourist attraction.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise landed near Gun Wharf offices to film at Chatham Dockyard for Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning. Picture: John Nurden\"AA filming crew took over Chatham Dockyard to film Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning. Picture: John Nurden\"AA huge lighting rig was installed for filming at Chatham Dockyard. Picture: Jenni Horn<\/p>\n

Despite wearing just a blue polo shirt, Cruise did not bring the Los Angeles weather with him, and our reporter braced the Autumn chill in an effort to try and track the A-lister down days later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But her Mission: Impossible turned out to be just that.<\/p>\n

However, she did come across some of his adoring fans hoping he would return.<\/p>\n

It turned out that Cruise had been filming the eighth and last instalment of the movie franchise, called \u2018Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning\u2019.<\/p>\n

Two and a half years later, the stunt-filled blockbuster is hitting cinemas today (May 21).<\/p>\n

Read more: <\/strong>Donald Trump\u2019s tariff threat to movie industry could have immediate impact on productions shooting in Kent<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It follows the daredevil spy protagonist, Ethan Hunt, played by Cruise, as he and his Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team race against time to find and stop the Entity \u2013 a rogue AI that could destroy mankind.<\/p>\n

Cruise continues to do his own jaw-dropping stunts in the movie, which he has labelled a \u201cgargantuan accomplishment\u201d.<\/p>\n

He performs an extended underwater sequence in the wreckage of a submarine and hangs off the side of a plane while trying to thwart a dangerous enemy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a culmination of everything, and I mean everything, that me and Mc Q (director Christopher McQuarrie) have learned in storytelling over the course of making these movies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Final Reckoning is very elegant, very layered and incredibly epic.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise, playing Ethan Hunt for the last Mission: Impossible film, performs an underwater sequence in the wreckage of a submarine. Picture: Paramount Pictures\/Giles Keyte<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it\u2019s a culmination of all of Mission: Impossible, you\u2019re going to see Ethan from the very beginning and understand him in a whole different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt is joined by comrades Benji and Grace, played by English actors Simon Pegg and Hayley Atwell, new ally Paris, a French assassin played by Guardians of the Galaxy star Pom Klementieff, and Theo, the US Intelligence agent once assigned to track down Ethan and his team played by Top Gun: Maverick\u2019s Greg Tarzan Davis.<\/p>\n

The odds of success are slim, and the ragtag have to time their actions down to the millisecond to avoid catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the engine that drives this film,\u201d says director Christopher McQuarrie of the team at the heart of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very, very internal because Ethan is away from the team for so much of the movie.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise hangs off the side of a plane in a jaw-dropping stunt during his last Mission: Impossible film. Picture: Paramount Pictures\/ PA<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is alone in ways that we haven\u2019t seen him in these films before.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, it could never stop being a story about the entire team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the eighth and likely final Mission: Impossible hits cinema screens today, KentOnline has taken a look back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[4080,77,609,495,607,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-kent","12":"tag-medway","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114544438546592017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}