Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible movies keep getting increasingly better, bolder and longer with each installment. And while better and bolder is something only its release will tell, we can attest to the fact that they won’t break the running time streak. According to an exclusive from IGN, the runtime for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is currently clocked at an eye-watering 2 hours 36 minutes. And that’s without the end credits.
With the sheer number of people that work on a film of this scale, the credits generally tend to run for 6 to 7 minutes. Add in a post-credits seen and you get another minute or so, setting the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise for a run time close to 2 hours and 45 minutes with all credits factored in. That makes it much longer than the first three movies that ran close to 2 hours as well as Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation and Fallout which ran for 2 hours 13 minutes, 2 hours 21 minutes and 2 hours 27 minutes respectively.
Of course, a post-credits seen isn’t a guarantee and Mission: Impossible movies have never had one. However, the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two due next year almost makes me certain that this could be the first installment in the series that includes a post-credits sequence teasing the next one.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is set to release on July 12, 2023. Its sequel, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part Two arrives next year on June 28, 2024.
