After seven movies, nearly 30 years and more than $4 billion in global grosses, Tom Cruise looks set to retire his Ethan Hunt character with the eighth climactic installment, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Maverick” flew into the Cannes Film Festival, the star has come back to the Croisette with “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”

Tom Cruise has some key advice for the next wave of actors. As one of the biggest movie stars in the world, he didn’t attend film school or have a technically trained background. Instead, Cruise told the audience on Monday while receiving the British Film Institute Fellowship honor that he learned his skills by watching movies.

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the Impossible Missions Force are bringing the action to theaters near you on May 23 in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.″ Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to gather information on Ethan’s previous missions, from disguises to car chases.

The Final Reckoning" has been revealed to members of the press, and first reactions are praising the film as an exhilarating end to the historic action franchise. Film critic Courtney Howard wrote of the film on X,

Tom Cruise is a once-in-a-lifetime talent, with the actor being an endlessly bankable action star thanks to his penchant for wild stunts. He's in some of the best action movies ever, and all eyes are on what he's bringing in the next (and final?

In video footage obtained by Discussing Film, the 62-year-old actor could be seen standing on the roof of the BFI IMAX building in London — one of the largest cinemas in the United Kingdom — on Sunday, May 11. Deadline confirmed from sources close to the star that the man standing on the roof was indeed Cruise.

Seven films down with an eighth and final edition launching in cinemas this month, Mission: Impossible is undoubtedly one of contemporary cinema's most enduring franchises. But back in 1996, what made a young Tom Cruise,