Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, the eighth and last instalment of the film franchise, will release in India on May 17, five days before it hits screens worldwide, makers Paramount Pictures India announced on Friday.

Clear your calendars and fasten your seatbelts because Ethan Hunt is punching in early! Fans of the iconic franchise now won't have to wait as long to witness Ethan Hunt’s final mission unfold on the big screen as the makers announce that the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will now hit theatres earlier than expected!

Picking up from Dead Reckoning Part One, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt now holds the key to confronting the formidable AI known as the Entity – his most perilous adversary yet. The film propels the plot forward as Hunt must gather his team to locate the sunken Russian submarine containing the Entity’s source code, the key to its destruction.