New behind the scenes footage has proved that Tom Cruise is risking it all again for Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning.

The 62-year-old actor is famous for doing his own very adventurous stunts which have become a hallmark of the franchise.

And the latest instalment is no different, withone particular shock moment showing the Hollywood star thousdands of feet up in the air as he dangles out of a helicopter before falling backwards to the ground. 

Paramount Pictures have shared a new video on their YouTube channel using a Snorricam – a camera that locks the camera’s perspective to the actor.

The nail-biting clip shows Tom leaping out of the helicopter, as well as including some of the decisions that were made by the crew before the stunt took place.  

In the video, the actor explains to some production members: ‘We’re going to go to 10,000 but if we can get 12,000 we’ll go 20 knots forward. What I’d like to do is accelerate the next jump and I’d like to do it as quickly as possible.

New behind the scenes footage has proved that Tom Cruise is risking it all again for Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning

The 62-year-old actor is famous for doing his own very adventurous stunts which have become a hallmark of the franchise

‘I’ll build up to it, go faster faster faster and put myself into a worst case scenario and how far does it take me to recover? Which all of these cases are recoverable.’

He then gets the large camera attached to his body and makes sure everything is in position and the sH๏τ is correct.

Then, another snippet sees the film star say on set: ‘Lets talk about safety. We’re going to do the same exit, I’ll be in an accelerated spin.’

When asked by the crew what he wants to be seen on screen, he responds: ‘We want to see me falling and then I throw it and it’s like holy…’

The actor is then seen beaming as he goes up in the helicopter before he gets the thumbs up to jump and counts down from three while hanging out of the side.

As he jumps, the perspective switches to show his facial expressions as he hurtles down before pulling his parachute. 

Reprising his role as the тιтular hero Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible, Tom takes on his biggest mission yet, after a tense cliffhanger saw the spy determined to track down cyber weapon The Enтιтy and learning that his team was betrayed and his ‘secrets compromised.’

The film, which has faced multiple delays, is finally due to hit cinemas on May 23 2025.

Speaking of the stunts in the movie, Tom previously told Empire magazine: ‘When you stick your face out (of an airplane), going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you’re not getting oxygen.

And the latest instalment is no different, withone particular shock moment showing the Hollywood star thousdands of feet up in the air as he dangles out of a helicopter before falling backwards to the ground

Paramount Pictures have shared a new video on their YouTube channel using a Snorricam – a camera that locks the camera’s perspective to the actor

The nail-biting clip shows Tom leaping out of the helicopter, as well as including some of the decisions that were made by the crew before the stunt took place

In the video, the actor explains to some production members: ‘We’re going to go to 10,000 but if we can get 12,000 we’ll go 20 knots forward’

The actor is then seen beaming as he goes up in the helicopter before he gets the thumbs up to jump and counts down from three while hanging out of the side

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‘So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pᴀss out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit.’

Previous Mission: Impossible movies have seen the star climb the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and cling to the roof of a moving train but director Christopher McQuarrie explained that a scene in the latest flick made him ‘want to puke’ from ‘the stress’.

The 56-year-old filmmaker said: ‘There are stunts in this movie that will melt your brain.

‘There would be a day in Africa – any day in Africa – where Tom would go out and do something that topped anything he had ever done before.’

In the soon-to-be released big budget action flick, his character Ethan Hunt hangs from and crawls along the wings of a biplane from the 1940s above South Africa’s Drakensberg mountain range which could be seen in the trailer for the upcoming flick.

He told People: ‘I remember seeing old footage of wing-walking. Those aircraft were only traveling at, I don’t know, 40, 50 miles an hour.

‘This aircraft is up to over 120 miles an hour. Going out there, I was realizing that it takes your breath away.’

And it looks like it was worth it as Tom is onto another winner with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

The blockbuster film – which cost almost $400 million to make – has already been described as ‘astonishing’ by early viewers.

The clip shows the moment the actor performed the terrifying stunt

Reprising his role as the тιтular hero Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible, Tom takes on his biggest mission yet

Following a series of press screenings, movie critics took to social media to gush about the latest instalment in the franchise, calling it ‘the action film of the summer’

The blockbuster film – which cost almost $400 million to make – has already been described as ‘astonishing’ by early viewers

It comes as Tom’s rumoured girlfriend Ana de Armas looked chic while out and about in New York City on Tuesday

The 37-year-old actress looked incredible in a grey bralette layered with a white crochet jacket and teamed with blue jeans

Following a series of press screenings, movie critics took to social media to gush about the latest instalment in the franchise, calling it ‘the action film of the summer.’

‘Tom Cruise defies all odds with jaw-dropping action built only for Imax,’ wrote critic Anthony Gagliardi.

‘Every stunt, every set piece, every second is designed to blow your mind, A PULSE-POUNDING THRILL RIDE, and Cruise remains the king of spectacle,’ he added.

Fandango’s Erik Davis wrote, ‘Absolutely astonishing action moments meet a sprawling story with many nods to past MI films. It’s the biggest, wildest and most consequential Mission movie yet.’

Movie critic Dave Baldwin gushed, ‘It’s exceptionally entertaining with pulse-pounding stunts that will leave you gasping. Tom Cruise has done it again.’

While most of the feedback for the film was positive, there were a few minor critiques from some viewers.

Brad Shanker said that it ‘drags in the middle’ while Gizmodo’s Germaine Lussier described it as ‘long, plotty, and repeтιтive.’

While it was originally billed as the last instalment in the long-running franchise, Cruise has since hinted that the series may continue.

Cruise previously admitted that he joined the franchise for Brian De Palma’s first entry in 1996 because he hoped to transform the action genre after a string of critically acclaimed performance that raised his profile in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

‘It was about looking at Mission and thinking, “What can we do with action?”‘ he said, via ᴅᴇᴀᴅline.

‘It was about how I can evolve action and storytelling and imbue that kind of storytelling with greater amounts of emotion.

‘That’s my interest. So I studied stunts and different cameras to develop my abilities and develop the technology.’