'There is never an easy day on Mission: Impossible'

Ahead of the final instalment of Ethan Hunt's epic story coming to cinemas, Tom Cruise and his co-stars talk all things Mission: Impossible

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"There is never an easy day on Mission: Impossible. I wouldn't have it any other way," smiles Tom Cruise, speaking ahead of the release of the final instalment in the nearly 30-year-old franchise.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning promises to be a stunt-filled, action-packed finale for Cruise's Ethan Hunt and his motley crew of spies and associates. Despite Cruise being 62 years old, he has still crammed the film with some of the most jaw-dropping, hair-raising and death-defying stunts of his career.

"This new movie is a gargantuan accomplishment," Cruise says.

"It's a culmination of everything, and I mean everything, that me and Mc Q (Christopher McQuarrie, who has directed its last four instalments) have learned in storytelling over the course of making these movies.

"The Final Reckoning is very elegant, very layered and incredibly epic."

Cruise has confirmed that The Final Reckoning marks Ethan Hunt's last mission - and he certainly goes out with a bang.

"Because it's a culmination of all of Mission: Impossible, you're going to see Ethan from the very beginning and understand him in a whole different way," the star teases.

Following on from the events of 2023's Dead Reckoning, we catch up with Hunt and the IMF team as they race against time to find and stop the Entity, a rogue AI that could destroy mankind both in its current form, and if it is captured by the wrong people.