Mission Impossible -The Final Reckoning gets five-minute standing ovation at 2025 Cannes Film Festival 

To be here in Cannes and have these moments, as a kid when we were growing up, I really can’t even dream about something like this happening. I’m very grateful for 30 years to be able to entertain you with this franchise” — Tom Cruise

Hollywood star Tom Cruise’s upcoming film Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning earned a five-minute standing ovation due to the actor’s commitment to putting breathless and death-defying practical stunts on the silver screen.

The Cannes premiere was a big event, with an almost 40-piece orchestra welcoming guests into the theater with the franchise’s iconic theme before the screening. 

The audience lapped up the film’s special effects but the long run-time left some theatergoers bleary-eyed and exhausted. 

In the final stretch of the film, featuring death-defying acrobatics from Cruise, a handful of attendees got up and fled the Palais. In the film, the 62-year-old star survived a three-minute knife fight sequence on a submarine wearing only skimpy boxer briefs along with a mind-blowing underwater sequence. 

During the standing ovation, Cruise clutched his heart and nodded gratefully, with both he and director Christopher McQuarrie kissing and thanking guests Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego-Saldana. As the clapping continued, the camera panned to each member of the large cast, including Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett and Hayley Atwell.