Shooting on an Arctic set and in South Africa proved challenging for different reasons on the wildlife spectrum.

The new film picks up where Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One ended, with Ethan, Grace ( Hayley Atwell ), and the rest of the team pursuing Gabriel (Esai Morales), an assassin working for the Entity artificial intelligence.

Known for its vicious villains, the franchise sports its Biggest Bad yet: an AI known as The Entity that's bent on wiping humans off the planet. Mashable Senior Creative Producer Mark Stetson sat down with the cast (Simon Pegg,

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a spectacularly silly tribute to the franchise’s explosive past.

The last hurrah for Tom Cruise's agent Ethan Hunt "gets tangled in knots trying to pull together threads from the earlier movies, which were originally designed as one-offs," reviews film critic Sean Burns.

Before Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning hits theaters on May 30, Hayley Atwell and the cast will head to the Cannes Film Festival to premiere the film next week. With that, it's likely that fashionistas will be looking out for what the actress wears then.

Impossible’ took the cast to Norway — where they experienced “polar-bear-related shutdowns,” says director Christopher McQuarrie

Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt one last time for the popular espionage film franchise. Mission Impossible 8 box office collection day 4: Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise headline the film. ( via AFP) Mission Impossible 8 sees Tom reprise his role as the spy Ethan Hunt and fight against time to save the world against an AI entity threatening to take over and annihilate the human race.