Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which made $567 million in theaters, finds new life on Netflix’s global chart. Co-written and directed once again by Christopher McQuarrie, the seventh installment in the action franchise finds Tom Cruise’s IMF Agent Ethan Hunt and his team of operatives in a fight against a powerful rogue AI known as the Entity. The Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning cast includes other franchise regulars such as Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Vanessa Kirby alongside newcomers Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, and Pom Klementieff.

Now, nearly a year after its release, the latest Mission: Impossible movie has found new life on Netflix. For the past week of June 10-16, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning ranked third on Netflix’s Global Top 10 chart with 5.6 million views and 15.3 million hours viewed. It ranked below Four Brothers in second and Hit Man in first, marking their second weeks in the Top 10.

Dead Reckoning’s Netflix Success Partially Redeems Its Box Office Underperformance

The Mission: Impossible Movie Was Overshadowed By Barbenheimer

Dead Reckoning, originally subtitled Part One, is widely regarded as one of the best Mission: Impossible movies, with its 96% Rotten Tomatoes score sitting just behind Fallout‘s 97% for the franchise high. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning reviews praise the movie’s high-stakes scenarios and grand set pieces, making it a must-see installment in the franchise and one of the best action movies of 2023. Despite the massive critical acclaim for Dead Reckoning, it did underperform at the box office due to the dual release of Barbie and Oppenheimer the following weekend on July 21.

Audiences who saw Dead Reckoning held it in as high regard as critics, as indicated by its 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with 5,000+ verified ratings. It also made over $567 million at the box office which, in and of itself, is an impressive figure and good enough for the ninth-highest-grossing movie of 2023. The reason why Dead Reckoning‘s box office performance was considered a disappointment is because of its big $291 million budget, making it the 15th most expensive movie ever made.

A Mission Impossible movie’s globe-trotting production is inherently costly and Dead Reckoning was produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused several delays and ballooned the budget even more. With a $291 million budget, Dead Reckoning had to make $582-727 million just to become profitable. Because of Barbenheimer and its big budget, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning did underperform at the box office, but by becoming a global hit on Netflix, it has partially redeemed itself.

Source: Netflix