‘Jawdropping’: Daredevil Tom Cruise and his ‘Mission: Impossible’ wow Cannes

“What a rush!” The Guardian declared in its five-star love letter to Cruise’s US$400million (NZ$680m) behemoth, calling him a modern “superhuman action hero Harold Lloyd… forever young, forever fit, never saying die in the face of this preposterous Armageddon clock”.