The Final Reckoning, in an unusual meta stroke, reveals what the franchise has always truly been: a man against the impossible, called upon only when the world, and the story itself, has run out of options.

Ethan will always "figure it out", as he and his team repeat during Final Reckoning. He is but one man, but to save humanity he will plunge to the bottom of the freezing ocean; he will wrestle a plane to the ground with his bare hands. Ethan Hunt’s not giving up, are you?

Tom Cruise returned to Cannes three years after "Top Gun Maverick" to electrify the festival all over again with his final "Mission: Impossible" film.