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"Mission: Impossible -Fallout" sees Cruise -
who famously does his own stunts - throw himself from a military
transport plane at 25,000 feet, pilot a helicopter though
mountain ravines and race a motorbike helmet-less through
oncoming traffic round Paris' Arc de Triomphe.
"It just ups the bar so far, it's a crazy kind of evolution. Any
one of the stunt sequences in this movie would do a film proud
as its climax, and they're just all the way through," Pegg said.
Pegg returns as the nerdy sidekick to Cruise's suave spy Ethan
Hunt, though Pegg says he would not swap places with the
Hollywood star, whose last film in the franchise - 2015's
"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" - took in $682 million at
the global box office.
"I'm happy to be the one on the ground operating the computer. I
get to be part of it but I don't have to risk my life," Pegg
told Reuters ahead of the film's world premiere in Paris on
Thursday.
Henry Cavill, appearing as a CIA-paid hitman who joins a terror
ring intent on engineering a nuclear disaster to destroy the old
world order, was equally impressed.
"When you're seeing a guy who's learned how to fly a helicopter
and then do stunts in a helicopter, and not only stunts in a
helicopter but stunts in a helicopter in the mountains, it's
something else," Cavill said of the 56-year-old Cruise.
Director Christopher McQuarrie has said he wants the movie to
explore a more human side to Hunt, starting with the return of
his ex-wife, played by Michelle Monaghan, and British MI6
collaborator Ilsa Faust, played by Rebecca Ferguson.
"Mission: Impossible - Fallout" starts its international rollout
in movie theaters on July 25.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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