Mission Impossible 7 releases official trailer, Tom Cruise to attend Sydney premiere

After six previous movies, you have to wonder what crazy but gravity-respecting stunts are left for the Mission Impossible movies. Loads.

It’s getting so close you can almost hear the countdown clock.

Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning: Part One has released another trailer ahead of its July 12 release, and it is a pulse-fastening experience.

Trains, planes and automobiles. So many automobiles. And OK, not so much a plane as a train that becomes airborne. But what is a plane if not basically just an airborne train? Seriously.

The seventh Mission Impossible movie has promised a raft of crazy stunts, whether they be BASE-jumping off a mountain in a motorcycle or close-quarters hand-to-hand combat.

This is a franchise that prides itself on delivering bonkers thrills, and ones that are (mostly) dictated by gravity because Tom Cruise is not interested in jumping into a foam pit from a one-metre high platform in front of a green screen. No, siree.

He wants to be doing them in the field, and giving the studio’s insurance company daily heart attacks.

And the man himself, Cruise, will be on hand for the Australian premiere in Sydney on July 3, along with a contingent of his cast mates and director and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie.

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One is released on July 12.

If the trailer is any indication, Dead Reckoning Part One (part two is expected to bow in June 2024) is racing towards the end of Ethan Hunt’s story, and there’s an air of inevitability and fate about it.

Or maybe that’s just the effect of Henry Czerny’s Kittridge, not seen since Brian De Palma’s 1996 movie, intoning in voice over, “Our lives are the sum of our choices, and we cannot escape the past. Ethan, this mission of yours is going to cost you dearly”.

Ominous.

Returning to the franchise are Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson as Ethan’s allies – and at one point, you can see him responding to a threat against them with fierce mamma bear vibes, “If anything happens to them, there is no place I won’t go to kill you, that is written”.

Vanessa Kirby is also back while newcomers are Hayley Atwell who plays someone with ambiguous loyalties and Esai Morales as the villain Gabriel.

The rest of the cast includes Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma and Mark Gatiss.

Originally published as Mission Impossible 7 releases official trailer, Tom Cruise to attend Sydney premiere