Tom Cruise's global game of promotional hopscotch planted him in Cannes this week, where he will unveil "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" following stops in Japan, Korea and London. Brooding closeups of the star's dirt-and-blood caked face have peppered the Croisette on 4K LED screens and the premiere promises to be one this year's

After seven movies, nearly 30 years and more than $4 billion in global grosses, Tom Cruise looks set to retire his Ethan Hunt character with the eighth climactic installment, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

The eighth, and possibly final, instalment of the Tom Cruise-led action spy films hits cinemas worldwide May 21