19 Years Later, Mission: Impossible Just Retconned Its Most Polarizing Movie
Lyvie Scott
created: May 27, 2025, 4:52 p.m. | updated: June 1, 2025, 6:56 a.m.
That consolidating makes for a handful of callbacks and retcons, the most interesting of which brings us back nearly 20 years to Mission: Impossible III.
Spoilers ahead for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
Throughout Mission: Impossible III, theories about the Rabbit’s Foot abound.
Even better, it retroactively makes Mission: Impossible III — one of the saga’s most polarizing installments — all the more important in the grand scheme.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is now playing in theaters.
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