Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ Overtakes Brad Pitt’s 60% Rotten Tomatoes Action Movie at the US Box Office

Although a stark difference in release dates makes it an unfair fight, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are currently engaging in a battle of the blockbuster heavyweights at the box office, as Joseph Kosinski‘s F1 and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cruise’s final outing as Ethan Hunt, fight among several other big-name titles for theatergoers attention. However, as the latter’s theatrical run starts to slow, now showing in almost half the theaters it opened in, it has taken down another Pitt action flick at the domestic box office.

Currently sitting on a domestic total of $186.6 million, which makes up a third of the movie’s total global gross of $561.6 million, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has now overtaken Doug Liman‘s spy thriller Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which saw Pitt and Angelina Jolie star as the titular couple in a film that famously sparked their real-life relationship. Thanks to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning‘s continued box office run, which helped it take another $645,000 domestically on its sixth Monday, the movie now sits at #283 in the all-time domestic box office rankings, knocking Mr. and Mrs. Smith into spot #284.

How high can The Final Reckoning climb in the list? Well, given its previous weekend’s total of just over $4 million, it can be expected that Cruise’s latest effort will at least climb as high as 273rd. This would see the film pass a selection of eye-catching names along the way, including another 2025 hit in Marvel‘s Thunderbolts*, the big-budget disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid, Keanu Reeves‘ John Wick: Chapter 4, and the original Gladiator headlined by Russell Crowe, with The Final Reckoning having already surpassed the latter at the global box office.