Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt has been entralling audiences for almost thirty years, but what happens to the character after Final Reckoning's climax?

At the end of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cruise manages to wrestle the AI key from Gabriel while the pair fight in the cockpit of a biplane. Gabriel falls from the plane, hitting his head on the tail and plummeting to the Earth (the fall will have killed him, but we don't actually see him die).

As fans have come to expect of this espionage franchise, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will deliver globe-trekking, tense twists, jaw-dropping action sequences that make grown-ups feel like kids again,

Impossible' movie franchise is among the most valuable in terms of U.S. box office, having endured for almost 30 years.

Warning: This article contains full spoilers for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

LOS ANGELES, May 14 (UPI) --Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning ... at models as the DEFCON clock ticks down to The Entity's takeover. Ethan explains to Gabriel, then to the President ...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is action-packed but feels too long and struggles to provide closure. Tom Cruise impresses as Ethan Hunt, with memorable performances from Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, and Simon Pegg. The film’s villain and finality fall short, but tense action scenes—especially the submarine sequence—stand out.

Ambrose tells his henchman, Hugh (Richard Roxburgh), that he’s willing to overlook the likelihood that Nyah is a spy to get her in bed one more time. Part of the charm of Mission: Impossible II is that it embraces that kinkiness, allowing its villain to be a pervert who gets some thrills out of swapping identities.

The movie could be the end of a franchise 30 years in the making. Here's the ending to Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.