Exclusive: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Runtime Revealed

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has officially locked in its runtime, and it’s the longest Mission: Impossible movie yet.

IGN can exclusively reveal that Dead Reckoning Part One will clock in at two hours and 36 minutes without credits, pushing it just past 2018’s Mission: Impossible Fallout, which had a runtime of two hours and 27 minutes. Director/co-writer Christopher McQuarrie confirmed earlier this week that he had locked picture on Dead Reckoning Part One via an Instagram post.

The runtime of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has been the subject of plenty of speculation, especially after Paramount Global president Bob Bakish commented in March that the movie is “a complete thrill ride,” but was still “too long” at that point (via IndieWire).

The Mission: Impossible series has largely seen slowly increasing runtimes, following a larger Hollywood trend that has more and more blockbusters clocking in around two and a half hours. The first Mission: Impossible in 1996 had a runtime of one hour and 50 minutes – modest by 2023 standards – and climbed to two hours and four minutes for Mission: Impossible 2.

Mission: Impossible 3 was comparable, with a runtime of two hours and six minutes, while Ghost Protocol hopped up to two hours and 13 minutes. Rogue Nation bucked the trend slightly, with a runtime two minutes shorter than Ghost Protocol’s, before hitting a then-series high with Fallout.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh installment of the Tom Cruise franchise, will hit theaters on July 12, having recently been pushed up two days. According to the official synopsis, it’ll see Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his IMF team “embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands.”

In addition to Cruise, Dead Reckoning Part 1 also stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff and Henry Czerny. Its sequel, Dead Reckoning Part Two, is currently set to release on June 28, 2024.

Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.