Spoilers for “Mission: Unimaginable – The Last Reckoning” observe.
Ethan Hunt has had his ultimate reckoning, and “Mission: Unimaginable — The Last Reckoning” has turn out to be a field workplace win. The movie is completely loaded with Easter eggs, call-backs, and fan-favorite characters returning to take pleasure in their overdue second within the solar.
However there may be one character whose absence is felt in each body of the very lengthy film: Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust. First launched in Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Unimaginable – Rogue Nation” as the final word foil to Tom Cruise’s celebrity spy Ethan Hunt, Isla gained viewers’s over together with her uber-capable spy expertise and her lack of ability to wink. The movie ended up altering your entire path of the “Mission: Unimaginable” franchise, and Isla is not any small cause why.
That is why when Ilsa died in “Mission: Unimaginable — Lifeless Reckoning,” many within the viewers have been simply as heartbroken as Ethan Hunt. McQuarrie admitted that it was a “actually robust choice” to lose Ilsa however insisted that it was an vital a part of Ethan’s story that he be compelled to say goodbye to her.
Since “Last Reckoning” has been marketed as the ultimate movie within the collection, many followers have been disenchanted to search out we did not get one final second with Ilsa earlier than Ethan hung up his hat for good. However what if, just like the skilled spy she was, Ilsa was hiding proper beneath our noses?
Who’s that subsequent to Ethan Hunt on the finish of The Last Reckoning?
Simply earlier than the credit roll on Ethan’s ultimate journey, the ultimate remnants of the Unimaginable Mission Drive reunite in Trafalgar Sq. to say their goodbyes earlier than going their separate methods. We get to see Benji, Paris, Theo, and Grace bid farewell to Ethan as he declares victory over the villainous AI generally known as the Entity.
However as Ethan walks away, many eagle eyed Ilsa followers seen a mysterious girl with a remarkably acquainted hairdo strolling alongside Ethan within the ultimate shot of the movie (there’s already bootleg footage of this second floating across the web, should you’re incline to seek for it).
The one factor we all know for positive about this girl is not Rebecca Ferguson. For one factor, she was busy filming the Apple TV+ sci-fi collection “Silo” on the time they have been making “The Last Reckoning.” And in addition, it could be felony negligence on McQuarrie’s half to deliver her on set and never let her kick some ass like outdated occasions.
That being stated, the resemblance is uncanny, a lot in order that it actually seems to be just like the filmmakers took a shot of Ferguson strolling from a earlier “Mission” and digitally inserted it right here. This might be a sly Easter egg buried into the ultimate frames of the movie, or possibly that is all only a coincidence and that is not Ilsa/Rebecca Ferguson in any respect.
Possibly it is a case of followers coping, determined to see Ilsa once more. Or is that this a tease of what would possibly come subsequent within the “Mission: Unimaginable” story? Solely Ethan Hunt may give us the reply to that query, if he chooses to just accept his subsequent mission.
