I needn't have worried: Ethan Hunt lives to fight another day in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He defeats Gabriel in a mid-air dogfight, and puts the poison pill in the Entity's podkova, allowing it to be trapped in Luther's ingenious 5D data drive.

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

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning positions itself as a final bow for the series and Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, but the actual movie’s ending challenges that.