By Michaela Gordoni
After two full months in theaters, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING is coming to home screens on Aug. 19.
It will be available to buy or rent on platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home, USA Today reported.
4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD versions will hit the market on Oct. 14.
The movie, which is the eighth installment in the spy franchise, came out on May 23 and made $589 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo.
Anyone who purchases the film on digital “can take a deep dive into the breathtaking production with behind-the-scenes interviews, exclusive commentary and deleted footage not seen in theaters,” Paramount Pictures said.
Bonus footage includes deep looks into the high-caliber airplane and ocean stunts, a montage of deleted footage and special optional commentary by the director Christopher McQuarrie. It also features a technical conversation about the film by McQuarrie and Tom Cruise.
All of the first seven MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies, as well as the older series it is based on, are available to stream on Paramount+.
The movie cost $400 million to make and fell short of box office expectations. In comparison, 2017’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT made $800 million worldwide.
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It has a pretty decent score on Rotten Tomatoes, with an audience score of 88%.
Part of Movieguide®’s review reads, “MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING is an exhilarating, patriotic, stirring, and profound thriller. It goes from exciting one action setpiece to another while always developing the characters, including supporting characters. It has lots of drama in tense scenes featuring the President.” It also “has many Christian allusions.”
Star Tom Cruise is 63, and there has been talk of him being replaced with a younger spy.
Cruise has hinted that his time as Ethan Hunt isn’t over yet but has been tight-lipped about the franchise’s future. Paramount is undergoing a sale, and Cruise is set to work on a sci-fi movie with Warner Bros, so the future of the franchise seems a little uncertain.
“Tom was really keen that we not leave the film in a way that people would walk out and go, ‘Oh, God. He’s dead,’” said Cruise’s co-star, Simon Pegg. “We talked about James Bond and what they did in the last one. And [Cruise] said, ‘I never want the audience to leave the cinema not feeling like there could be more.’”
“Because finality can be a little depressing,” he continued. “So this is an end of sorts, it’s an end to that chapter from the start in 1996. But who knows? I think it would be foolish to say we’re never going to do another one.”
While the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise’s future is up in the air, fans can still enjoy the action-packed movies from home.
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