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.

The scene delivered by Paramount Pictures marked a triumphant return to the festival for both the studio and Cruise, last in town for the premiere of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ in May 2022.

Impossible - The Final Reckoning," the thrillingly doom-laden last chapter of the "M:I" series, Tom Cruise does something you expect - he's featured in the kind of elaborate stunt sequence that's become this 30-year-old series' trademark - but he also does something you may not expect.