Tom Cruise is back to hanging off airplanes – one-handed and upside down, as one does – in the first official trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

The feature is the eighth instalment in the long-running movie franchise, which began back in 1996 with Mission: Impossible. Cruise has remained coy as to whether this will be his final appearance as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the action film series.

At the end of 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (to which Final Reckoning was, at the time, billed as a Part Two), Ethan is trying to stop an ultra-powerful AI program called The Entity from falling into the wrong hands and sewing chaos in the world.

Christopher McQuarrie, who has helmed the franchise since 2015’s Rogue Nation, returns to direct Final Reckoning from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. Also returning to the screen are Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Shea Wigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, and Pom Klementieff. Newcomers to the franchise include Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Katy O’Brian, Tramell Tillman, and Stephen Oyoung.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning releases in cinemas from May 23rd. Watch the trailer below: