Tom Cruise has portrayed IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the action spy film Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. The film is the 8th installment in the successful franchise and a direct sequel to 2023's Dead Reckoning Part One. It will be released theatrically on May 23, 2025, by Paramount Pictures. Here's the official synopsis:"Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world’s governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan’s past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever."The film has received a long standing ovation at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning gets 5-minute standing ovation at Cannes 2025Ahead of its theatrical release, Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was showcased at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It was screened on May 14 in an out-of-competition section. Viewers at the venue seem to have loved the film, as the film received a five-minute-long standing ovation. A video from the event shows people at the venue standing up and clapping continuously as Cruise and the team thank everyone.It has been reported that the film might be Cruise's last outing as Ethan Hunt. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the film is written by him and Erik Jendresen, while the producers include Cruise and McQuarrie. The cast of the film includes,Tom Cruise as Ethan HuntHayley Atwell as GraceVing Rhames as Luther StickellSimon Pegg as Benji DunnHenry Czerny as Eugene KittridgeAngela Bassett as Erika SloaneEsai Morales as GabrielPom Klementieff as ParisMariela Garriga as MariePasha D. Lychnikoff as Captain KoltsovHolt McCallany as SerlingJanet McTeer as WaltersNick Offerman as General SydneyHannah Waddingham as Admiral NeelyIn an interview with Variety at Cannes, Tom Cruise was asked about the franchise's future. He said,“I’d rather just people see it and enjoy and we’ve had an amazing time doing it and it’s been a lot of fun and I just want you all to enjoy it. Enjoy this and know everything is the culmination has come to this moment right now.”Are you excited about the film?Stay tuned to Soap Central for more such stories.