Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has an unlikely Mission: Impossible 3 callback, one that could have far-reaching ramifications as we inch towards the end of the action franchise.
You may have been too dazzled by Tom Cruise’s showreel of stunts in the first trailer for The Final Reckoning to notice, at the 1:35 mark, Ethan Hunt picks up a container marked ‘Biohazard’.
That isn’t just any MacGuffin. It’s eerily similar – if not identical – to the all-powerful biological weapon the Rabbit’s Foot that enters the radar of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Owen Davian in the J.J. Abrams-directed threequel.
Inevitably, that has led to the Mission: Impossible community wondering just how something from Mission: Impossible 3 has suddenly snuck its way into what could be Ethan Hunt’s final act.