‘Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ Streams Free on YouTube, But You Will Need a Lot of Patience to Watch It

The latest Tom Cruise blockbuster, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, is now available for digital download. Fans can buy it for around $20, and it comes packed with extra features. But Paramount has also found a very unusual way to let people watch it for free, sort of.

Instead of putting the full movie on a regular streaming platform, Paramount uploaded it to YouTube… in Morse code. That’s right, the nearly three-hour film is being broadcast letter by letter in Morse code. As of Wednesday afternoon, August 20, 2025, it was still live. Watching it in this format is obviously going to take a lot of patience, making even a long livestream seem short in comparison.

The YouTube description explains the unusual stunt. “A secure livestream of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning full movie is running now. But the Entity has infiltrated every major streaming platform, so this livestream was compromised. The full script had to be transmitted in Morse Code to avoid detection. We need your help decoding it. Your mission begins now.”

As of August 17, 2025, the film has earned $197.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $399.1 million internationally, bringing its total worldwide gross to $596.5 million, according to box office reports.

Reviews have been mostly positive, though a bit more muted than past Mission: Impossible films. Critics praised the action scenes, but some complained that the first hour felt slow because of heavy exposition. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie holds an 80% rating from 417 reviews.

This clever and quirky Morse code release is certainly a different way to celebrate the film’s digital debut, and it’s getting people talking.

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