Ethan Hunt’s story is now over, supposedly — and early watchers are responding to the last Mission: Impossible installment.

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the final film in the spy action franchise, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and received a five-minute standing ovation. The film was directed by Christopher McQuarrie with a budget nearing $400 million. Leading up to the highly anticipated movie’s release, Tom Cruise’s jaw-dropping stunts like him holding on the side of a helicopter and the under water sequence has been promoted on the film’s social media and the star’s own account.

Final Reckoning begins a couple of months after 2023’s Dead Reckoning ends. Hunt (Cruise) and the Imf team are on a mission to stop Gabriel Martinelli (Esai Morales) from getting access to the world-ending rogue artificial intelligence known as “The Entity.” Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames,...