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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Where Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

A Bering Sea sonar island, a Pacific carrier and a sunken Russian submarine: the story's places and the places it was shot are mostly not the same

Scenes and places

Luther's lab beneath London

Ethan and Benji visit their ill friend Luther in his hidden lab, where he has finished building the Poison Pill, a malware made to target the Entity.

Set in Luther's off-grid laboratory beneath London — A hidden lab under London where Luther has built the Poison Pill malware.

The prison break in Austria

The team breaks Paris, Gabriel's former lieutenant, out of an Austrian prison and recruits Theo Degas on the way.

Set in A prison in Austria — The team springs Gabriel's former lieutenant from prison.

Captured in London

Gabriel's men capture Ethan and Grace in London. Gabriel orders Ethan to recover the Podkova module from a sunken Russian submarine, but with help from the team they escape.

Set in London — Gabriel's men capture Ethan and Grace in the city.

Filmed at Natural History Museum, London (South Kensington, London, United Kingdom) — Tom Cruise raced through this museum during filming; which scene it was is not stated, so the link to this event is a best fit. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Ethan before the President

Ethan is taken to a government bunker with three days left before the Entity takes over the world's remaining nuclear controls. He has to convince the President to let him go after the sunken submarine.

Set in Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center — The US government's underground command facility in Virginia, where Ethan is taken. Google Maps · Apple Maps

The sonar island in the Bering Sea

Grace, Benji, Paris and Degas travel to an isolated island to find a former CIA analyst who memorized the sunken submarine's coordinates. Russian special forces move in on them.

Set in St. Matthew Island, Bering Sea — A remote island with a Cold War naval sonar array that heard the submarine sink. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Svalbard, Norway (Svalbard, Norway) — The Arctic scenes were reportedly shot in Svalbard. The point is the archipelago's centre, not a filming spot, and the link to the St. Matthew Island scenes is not stated in the sources. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Aboard the aircraft carrier

Ethan joins the supercarrier he requested and is moved on to a submarine for the final leg of the search.

Set in USS George H. W. Bush, northern Pacific Ocean — The nuclear-powered carrier Ethan joins on his way to the submarine.

Filmed at Aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush, off Apulia, Italy (Apulia, Italy) — Filming moved to Apulia to shoot aboard the real carrier. The point is the region's centre, not the ship's position. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Diving to the wreck

Aboard the submarine, Ethan survives an assassin who infiltrated the crew, then dives in an experimental suit to reach the wreck of the Sevastopol as it slides down the continental shelf.

Set in Submarine USS Ohio and the wreck of the Sevastopol — A nuclear submarine and a sunken Russian wreck on the ocean floor.

Filmed at Longcross Studios, Surrey (Longcross, Surrey, United Kingdom) — The production filmed underwater scenes in the studio's water tanks. Which scene this was is not stated, so the link to the dive is a best fit. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The bunker in South Africa

Gabriel ambushes the team at the bunker with a timed nuclear device and demands the Podkova. Kittridge's agents burst in, a gunfight starts, the bomb is armed and Benji is shot.

Set in Digital bunker in South Africa — An underground data bunker the Entity wants access to.

The tunnel sequence

Set in An underground tunnel — A tunnel sequence late in the film; its in-story place is not named in the sources.

Filmed at Middleton Mine, Peak District (Peak District, Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom) — A tunnel sequence was filmed near this underground quarry site. The point is the village of Stoney Middleton, not the mine. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The biplane chase

Ethan and Gabriel fight over the Poison Pill in a lengthy chase between two biplanes, with the Entity close to taking the world's nuclear arsenal.

Set in The skies, in two biplanes — A chase in the air with no named place.

Filmed at RAF Bicester Aerodrome, Oxfordshire (Bicester, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) — Spotted as the airfield in the scene where Ethan flies two planes at once. Biplane stunts were also reported in the Lake District, with no single point. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Trafalgar Square

The story finishes in London's Trafalgar Square.

Set in Trafalgar Square, London — The central London square where the story ends. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Trafalgar Square, London (Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom) — Filmed here, as the story places it. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Characters

• Ethan Hunt — An IMF agent sent to stop the Entity, an AI taking over the world's nuclear systems.
• Grace — An IMF agent who joins Ethan's team.
• Benji Dunn — Ethan's fellow IMF agent and tech expert.
• Gabriel — The Entity's former proxy, who wants the Podkova.