Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning,’ Tom Cruise's final case as Ethan Hunt after nearly 30 years, earned a 7½-minute ovation after its Cannes premiere.

Tom Cruise was back in action for the premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The actor, 62, attended the premiere of the franchise’s eighth film in France on Wednesday, May 14, alongside leading lady Hayley Atwell. Cruise also posed with Mission: Impossible costars Pom Klementieff, Angela Bassett,

The Final Reckoning, the eighth film in the franchise and ostensibly its finale, looks, feels, and sounds like the sort of movie you need to see on the big screen. The powers that be at the Cannes Film Festival clearly thought so too: the picture premiered here on May 14.