Tom Cruise has just released some impressive South Island video, where New Zealand scenery provides a stunning backdrop to his newly acquired helicopter flying skills.

Cruise, 55, spent two years training to become a helicopter pilot, just so that he could perform his own stunts for the new Mission Impossible film.

Cruise told the Graham Norton Show earlier this year that "the helicopter sequence is just incredibly exhilarating and very dangerous. So there's really only one country that would allow us to do it.

That country was New Zealand.

Cruise and the film crew spent five weeks in Otago and Southland last winter, shooting some impressive scenes for the movie Fallout.