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.

Impossible franchise is over, then it was quite a send-off for a star whose enthusiasm — and dedication to insane stunts — hasn’t dimmed.

Underwater and high in the sky, Tom Cruise's stunts are fantastic, but Cannes we get past the running exposition? A rapturous French premiere says that mission is quite possible.