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

Maverick” flew into the Cannes Film Festival, he’s coming back Wednesday to the Croisette with “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”

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.