Our lives are the sum of our choices.

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
In Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “AI nuclear apocalypse”. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, power, control, survival.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Pixels (2015)E8/E13 · rare rung · survival, technology
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)E8/E13 · rare rung · control, technology
Alien: Covenant (2017)E8/E13 · rare rung · survival, technology
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)E8/E13 · rare rung · survival, technology
Transformers One (2024)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, technology
Mazinger Z: Infinity (2017)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, technologyThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, survival
Species (1995)E4/E11/E14 · rare rung · control, survival
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, technology
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
Pacific Rim (2013)E11/E14 · rare rung · survival, technologyOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
I Am Mother (2019)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalypse bunker
BLAME! (2017)consciousness in machines · net-city dystopia
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)consciousness in machines · transformer war cosmos
Terminator Genisys (2015)consciousness in machines · AI apocalypse
Atlas (2024)consciousness in machines · machine uprising
The Matrix (1999)consciousness in machines · simulated realityThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Underworld: Awakening (2012)consciousness in monsters · power, survival
The Blackout (2019)consciousness in aliens · control, power
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)consciousness in monsters · control, survival
March of the Penguins (2005)consciousness in animals · control, power
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995)consciousness in aliens · power, survival
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021)consciousness in animals · power, survivalShared director or cast.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Mission: Impossible (1996)Henry Czerny
Mission: Impossible III (2006)Simon Pegg
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)Simon Pegg