After studying them for 40 years, Tom Cruise says Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning features an underwater scene "unlike any other"

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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Tom C🐽ruise has run the gauntlet of on-screen stunts in the Mission: Impossible series. From HALO jumps at 25,000 feet to literally clinging to the side of a plane during takeoff, Cruise has put his body on the line as Ethan Hunt across seven movies and almost 30 years.

The upcoming eighth movie, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, is taking Cruise underwater – and it's for a sequence that's deca꧂des-in-the-making.

"From Legend in 1985 to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, I have been studying and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years. We have always tried to push our filmmaking to the next level," Cruise wrote on Twitter, accompanied by an image of Cruise getting ready for the stunt in question alongside a video of the actor swimming through a submerge🍨d set.

"In this movie [director Christopher McQuarrie] and I s🃏aw an opportunity to create an underwater sequence unlike any other. We are excited to share it with you."

We have previously seen a glimpse of The Final Reckoning's big underwater scene, with Cruise 澳洲幸运5✨开奖号码历史查询:looking uncharacteristically nervous as he prepares to take the plunge.

Whatever happens next (it's still unclear on whether this is 💮Ethan Hunt or Mission: Impossible's final mission, despite marketing strongly suggestꦍing it could be), it's sure to deliver all the pulse-pounding thrills an audience could wish for – and then some.

Speaking to , Christopher McQuarrie revealed, "We had a small screening and someone said, 'I was suffocating throughout the en🐲tire sequence. I alm🐠ost had a heart attack.' And I thought, 'I guess we did something right."

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Simon Pegg, Ving 🍬Rhames, and Pom Klementieff, hits cinemas on May 23, 2025.

For more, check out our rankings of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Mission: Impossible movies.

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