Impossible 8 Runtime Reveals Final Reckoning Is Longest in Tom Cruise Series

The Mission: Impossible 8 runtime has officially been revealed, with the upcoming movie set to be the longest in the iconic action series.
What is the Mission: Impossible 8 runtime?
According to recent posts on X originating from insider “Cryptic4KQual,” Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning will have a runtime of 171 minutes, or 2 hours and 51 minutes.
Should this hold, this would be the longest movie in the Mission: Impossible series, just beating 2023’s Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.
Along with Tom Cruise, the cast of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning includes Hayley Atwell as Grace, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis, Esai Morales as Gabriel, Pom Klementieff as Paris, Mariela Garriga as Marie, Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, Holt McCallany as Bernstein, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman as Sydney, Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane, Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs, Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas, Charles Parnell, and Frederick Schmidt.
The synopsis for the film simply reads, “Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”
The film is directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who co-wrote the script with Erik Jendresen. Cruise and McQuarrie both serve as producers on the film, while David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, and Chris Brock all serve as executive producers.
Mission: Impossible 8 will be released in United States theaters on May 23, 2025, from Paramount Pictures.