This past weekend the world was witness to a great spectacle while watching the NCAA Tournament. No, not some awesome dunk by one of Kentucky’s giant basketball players or underdog Michigan State’s incredible run to the Final Four, but the new Mission Impossible trailer for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

How great was that. Tom Cruise is the best. The guy is 52 and still dominating fun action movies. Before we get going just know, this isn’t the time for the long Tom Cruise tribute piece that will one day be posted here, or the Going Clear Scientology take down that is dominating social media right now; this is strictly Mission: Impossible talk.

The trailer already has over 6 million views on YouTube. That’s incredible. Glad to see all of us Cruisers out there staying strong. The trailer starts out like it should with shots of Renner, Rhames, Pegg, and as always Cruise on a motorcycle. The band is back together. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

What is that I hear, a voice over by Alec Baldwin? Wait, it’s not just a voice over, Baldwin is in the movie! That ratchets everything up a couple notches. Baldwin and Renner facing off over Cruise’s whereabouts. I love it. Standard action scenes inter spliced between all of this. Perfect!

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (typing the full title is fun) looks like it has everything I want in a Tom Cruise action movie. All the stunts, all the action, the cool guy banter and more motorcycles. There is even a shot of one of those Mission: Impossible exact replica face masks being ripped off someone’s head. Those face mask things are always good for some plot twists.

Then it happens. At the end of the trailer Cruise is trying to sneak on a cargo plane before it takes off, can’t get inside and has to hold on for dear life as the plane lifts off the ground and flies through the air. You may say to yourself, “So, that sounds like standard action movie stuff. Who cares if Cruise G.I. Joe grips a plane in mid air?” I do, and here’s why.

While in the movie theater lobby after seeing Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Great title by the way) a friend and I were breaking down the Mission: Impossible movies and noticed a theme of escalating heights. In the first movie there is the famous scene where Cruise is rapidly lowered into a room, and stops just before the floor, ceiling height. In Mission Impossible 2 everyone remembers the rock climbing scene, climbing height. Next, in the third movie there is some stuff on a tall building, and some bridge scenes, scary heights. Then finally in the fourth movie, Cruise climbs the tallest building in the world, Highest of heights.

After talking about all the perilous heights Cruise has faced we decided in the next movie (We always knew there would be a next movie) there was only one height left for Tom Cruise. That height, an airplane in flight. When I saw that last scene with Cruise and the plane my jaw hit the floor. Texts were immediately sent out. I still can’t believe it.

We did have one more logical progression of our theory, and that was for Mission: Impossible 6… Cruise in Space.