Run time: 170 mins

Moderate violence, injury detail, threat, language

As the title suggests, this is the last mission for Tom Cruise’s flagship series, and after three decades of thrilling high-wire acts, we’re closing out with some of the craziest stunt-work to date.

With his doughty team including Grace (Hayley Atwell), Luther (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg), Ethan Hunt (Cruise) must now confront the sinister AI brain named “the Entity”, the ultimate MacGuffin-slash-baddie which is undermining truth all over the world with lies and deep-fakes, setting nuclear power against nuclear power And to stop it, Ethan has to take the low-tech “cruciform key” he salvaged in the last film and apply it to the device which is on board a wrecked Russian submarine, somewhere on the seabed.

For all of Cruise-as-Hunt’s godlike powers, the actor is especially willing here to slip and slide around the place like he’s been touched by the grace of Buster Keaton. Whether it’s tumbling around in a sinking sub, or hanging off the wing of a bi-plane as it throttles through a canyon, he’s always willing to accept the greatest mission of all: to entertain.