Tom Cruise clapped in awe of his co-stars Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and Hannah Waddingham at his Mission: Impossible premiere at Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

The Hollywood actor, 62, let the movie’s leading ladies Hayley, 43, Pom, 39, Hannah, 50, steal the spotlight on the red carpet as he proudly stepped aside.

Tom’s much-anticipated eighth and final instalment of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has surprisingly fallen flat in the ratings so far.

The film, which has faced multiple delays, has been savaged by brutal film critics ahead of its official release on May 23.

Daily Mail’s Brian Viner gave a blistering two star review and strongly claimed the movie is ‘three hours of nonsense that will make you wish for the world to end’.

‘Those attending last night’s world premiere of the latest Mission: Impossible film in Cannes should have been greeted with a warning. This movie will take nearly three hours to self-destruct’, he wrote.

Tom Cruise clapped in awe of his co-stars Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and Hannah Waddingham (L-R) at his Mission: Impossible premiere at Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday

‘The premise can be summed up in less than five seconds. Ethan Hunt of the Impossible Missions Force, played by Tom for the eighth time, saves the world. Again.

‘Only this time he does it partly in his underpants.’

He adds: ‘In previous Mission: Impossible outings, I should add, the capers were fun and the stunts were spectacular.

‘There’s some of that here, and evocative flashbacks to past glories, but the film drags terribly in parts, and could lose half an hour just by cutting most of the lines telling us, in about 100 different ways, that the planet stands on the edge of a precipice. 

‘By the end, you might be wishing it would just fall off it.’

Meanwhile, The Sun’s Dulcie Pearce branded the movie ‘dull and humourless in a way I didn’t think this franchise ever could be’ in a two star review.

The critic also hit out at the movie’s ‘uninteresting’ choice of characters.

Dulcie wrote: ‘What I can’t abide is the complete lack of humour or interesting characters.

Tom’s much-anticipated eighth and final instalment of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has surprisingly fallen flat in the ratings so far 

The film, which has faced multiple delays, has been savaged by brutal film critics ahead of its official release on May 23 

Daily Mail’s Brian Viner gave a blistering two star review and strongly claimed the movie is ‘three hours of nonsense that will make you wish for the world to end’ 

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‘Grace, who in the last film was a superstar pickpocket, has just flatlined into a woman who stares off into the distance and looks like she might fancy Ethan a bit.

‘And Paris, a former cut-throat killer, now just nods and has, it seems, selective mutism. The first two hours are dull in a way I didn’t think the series ever could be.

‘Having left the cinema after M:I7 two years ago with adrenaline so high I felt in need of beta blockers, this time I was reaching for the defibrillator.

‘I give an extra star for the last hour, which has a decent amount of death-defying stunts, including a wing walk battle as Cruise, again, laughs in the face of insurance bills.

‘But this goodbye to a brilliant brand really did self-destruct.’

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opens across the UK next Wednesday