{"id":512609,"date":"2026-04-04T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512609\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:50:11","slug":"prime-video-just-added-a-2025-franchise-ending-movie-its-one-of-the-most-expensive-films-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512609\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video Just Added a 2025 Franchise-Ending Movie (& It\u2019s One of the Most Expensive Films Ever Made)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movies aren\u2019t cheap to make, and behind those massive blockbuster numbers that have seen several films now cross the billion-dollar mark, modern cinema has given way to ballooning budgets. Movies like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World Dominion, and Fast X take the cake for high budgets. Also on that list of most expensive movies ever made<\/a> is a massive, high-stakes conclusion to a 30-year-old action franchise that is now streaming on Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/a>, the eighth and final installment in the Tom Cruise-led action spy franchise that began back in 1986. It took a massive $300\u2013$400 million budget to conclude Ethan Hunt\u2019s story, the lower end of that making it at least tied with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u2019s End, Justice League, and Solo: A Star Wars Story as the 19th costliest movie ever. The higher end puts it within the top 10. The movie started streaming on Prime Video on April 3rd and sees Hunt and his IMF team in a race against time to locate a sunken submarine and destroy a sentient AI threatening global catastrophe.<\/p>\n

Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning Is a Near-Perfect Final Movie for Tom Cruise\u2019s Ethan Hunt<\/p>\n

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Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning\u2019s massive production budget paid off in some major ways. Although the film\u2019s budget meant its $598 million worldwide gross<\/a> fell short of its break-even point and ultimately made the movie a box office disappointment, it still smashed franchise records. The film\u2019s $204 million worldwide and $64 million domestic opening delivered the Mission: Impossible franchise\u2019s best opening ever. It also set a franchise best for IMAX openings with $15.3 million. In terms of overall consensus, the movie was a hit. Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning earned both \u201cCertified Fresh\u201d and \u201cVerified Hot\u201d badges on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> with a high 80% critic score and even better 88% audience rating.<\/p>\n

The movie was an all-around great send-off for the franchise and a perfect final act for Cruise\u2019s Ethan Hunt. The entire movie is a massive, high-octane love letter to the 30-year franchise that looks back at Hunt\u2019s journey and connects plot elements from the entire seven-film series to leverage both nostalgia and a deeper emotional tone. Final Reckoning also delivers the exact type of high-stakes, practical stunts fans expect from the franchise, including a high-stakes airplane sequence and an intense, claustrophobic submarine that perfectly showcase Hunt\u2019s capabilities and serve as a culmination of his previous adventures. And it all leads into an emotional finale that feels like a fitting conclusion to Hunt\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s New on Prime Video?<\/p>\n

Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning isn\u2019t the only movie freshly streaming on Prime Video. On April 1st, the Amazon streamer stocked dozens of great titles <\/a>in its catalog, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Guy Ritchie\u2019s The Covenant, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Terminator, and Titanic, with others scheduled to be added throughout the month.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Movies aren\u2019t cheap to make, and behind those massive blockbuster numbers that have seen several films now cross…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,6478,105795,2839,11523,1092,3842,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mission-impossible","10":"tag-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-prime-video","13":"tag-regular-news","14":"tag-streaming","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}