Mission: Impossible 8 – the return of the sexless show-off

Tom Cruise was 33 when the first Mission: Impossible appeared in 1996 .

Now, in this eighth outing, he is 62 , remarkably little altered after three decades .

The film’s production budget is said to be some $400 m, a stretch even for this franchise to recover.

So Tom Cruise has produced yet another thumping vehicle for himself, our great action hero, the would-be saviour of marquee cinema and the world. Yet he remains peculiarly unrelatable, sexless, strange. “ Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning ” is in cinemas now [See also: Modernity has killed the private life].