Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoninghas followed a Tom Cruise box office tradition, just like all but one other installment. Cruise is a global superstar and four-time Oscar nominee who first rose to prominence in the 1980s in movies includingRisky BusinessandTop Gun, going on to a blockbuster career of movies that have collectively grossed $13.3 billion worldwide.
Some of the most notableTom Cruise moviesare the eight installments in theMission: Impossiblefranchise, which is based on the 1966 series of the same name.He has portrayed superspy Ethan Hunt since the original movie debuted in 1996, reprising his role in every installment to date opposite an ensemble cast that includes Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg.
The fourth installment, 2011’sGhost Protocol, set the trend that Cruise would perform actual death-defying stunts on camera, seeking to constantly one-up himself with sequences including climbing the Burj Khalifa, hanging off the side of a large airplane, and jumping off a cliff on a motorcycle. It alsocemented the franchise’s status as a box office powerhouse.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Is On Tom Cruise’s Top 10 Highest-Grossing Chart
It Has Made $548M Worldwide
PerThe Numbers,2025’sMission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning, which is the most recent installment, has now reacheda worldwide box office gross of $548.3 million as of the time of writing. That number comprises $185.9 million from domestic theaters and $362.3 million from international markets.
This total makes the newMission: Impossiblemoviethe fourth highest-grossing movie of the year so far, only falling behind the worldwide totals of live-actionLilo & Stitchremake ($919.4 million), the video game adaptationA Minecraft Movie($954.4), and the Chinese smash hitNe Zha 2($1.899 billion).
Ne Zha 2is now the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.
The Final Reckoning’s worldwide total also sees the movie climbing up the ranking of Tom Cruise’s overall filmography to becomehis eighth highest-grossing movie of all time. This number is particularly remarkable because the star has appeared in roughly four dozen theatrical releases over the course of his career.
Final Reckoning Is Now The Seventh Mission: Impossible Movie To Fulfill This Trend
Only Mission: Impossible III Is Not In Cruise’s Top 10
By joining the Top 10 of Tom Cruise’s filmography,The Final Reckoningcontinues a longstanding franchise trend. Below, see a breakdown of where theMission: Impossiblemoviesstand among Tom Cruise’s overall Top 10 movies:
1
$1.454 billion
2
$786.6 million
3
$694.7 million
4
$688.8 million
5
War of the Worlds(2005)
$606.8 million
6
$565.7 million
7
$549.6 million
8
$548.3 million
9
$457.7 million
10
The Last Samurai(2003)
$456.8 million
As the chart reflects, theMission: Impossiblefranchisealsodominates three of the spots in Tom Cruise’s Top 5. However, while 2018’sFalloutwas once No. 1, it has since been toppled by the 2022 legacy sequelTop Gun: Maverick, which is the star’s only movie to have ever grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.
The only installment to not currently have a place on the chart is 2006’sMission: Impossible III, which is the 13th highest-grossing Tom Cruise movie overall with a worldwide total of $399.4 million. It stands below both 1988’sRain Man($412.8 million) and 2017’sThe Mummy($409.9 million).
Does That Mean Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Is A Box Office Success?
Unfortunately, No
In spite of continuing this major franchise trend for Tom Cruise, the 2025 movie isstill not positioned to be a box office success on its own terms. This is because the reportedbudget ofMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoningis $400 million.
That huge price tag makesThe Final Reckoningone of the most expensive productions of all time. While its exact break-even point is unknown, many movies need to earn back two and a half times their budgets, whichcould mean that it needs to earn a whopping $1 billion just to turn a profit.
The reason movies generally need to make so much at the box office is that theaters keep half of ticket sales and publicity costs are not factored into production budgets.
At the time of writing,Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoningis in the middle of its sixth weekend in theaters. In addition to experiencing a natural slowdown, it is about to face huge competition from PG-13 action-adventure movies such asSuperman,Jurassic World Rebirth, andThe Fantastic Four: First Stepsthat could prevent it from climbing much higher.
