SPOILER ALERT: This text incorporates main spoilers for “Mission: Inconceivable – The Remaining Reckoning,” now taking part in in theaters.

So, is “The Remaining Reckoning” actually the final “Mission: Inconceivable” film for Tom Cruise‘s Ethan Hunt? Cruise has teased that that is seemingly the send-off for his IMF agent, and there aren’t any confirmed plans for extra sequels within the sequence. Does Ethan escape from his battle with the AI Entity unscathed, or does he meet a grim destiny?

Effectively, it ought to come as no shock that Ethan as soon as once more saves the world from sure catastrophe by the tip of the film, and he and virtually all of his crew stroll away safely into the streets of London. The one casualty is Ving Rhames’ Luther Stickell, who sacrifices himself to disarm a nuclear bomb that the villain Gabriel (Esai Morales) planted in London. Nevertheless, Luther builds the last word gadget to destroy the Entity: a “poison tablet” knowledge drive, which is stolen by Gabriel.

After accumulating the Entity’s supply code module (which is definitely the Rabbit’s Foot from “Mission: Inconceivable III”) from the deserted Sevastopol submarine, Ethan simply must retrieve the poison tablet from Gabriel throughout a shootout in a South African digital bunker. Issues can’t be that straightforward, although, as Gabriel units off a nuclear bomb with a 20-minute timer as he escapes in a biplane. As Ethan stows away, Benji (Simon Pegg), Grace (Hayley Atwell), Paris (Pom Klementieff), Degas (Greg “Tarzan” Davis), William Donloe (Rolf Saxon) and his spouse Tapeesa (Lucy Tulugarjuk) defuse the bomb. After hijacking one aircraft and climbing aboard Gabriel’s, Ethan manages to take again the poison tablet and unite it with the supply code module. Gabriel isn’t so fortunate and dies after unfurling his parachute and cracking his head on the rudder.

In probably the most tense 100 milliseconds within the historical past of “Mission: Inconceivable,” Grace should enable the Entity to add into the poison tablet then unplug it from the bunker earlier than it positive aspects management of the world’s nuclear bombs. This all occurs whereas Benji painfully relays her directions whereas he will get makeshift emergency surgical procedure from Paris. In actually the blink of an eye fixed, Grace flips the swap and traps the Entity contained in the poison tablet, saving the day.

The film ends with Ethan, Grace, Benji and the remainder of their gang going their separate methods in London, with the Entity safely contained throughout the poison tablet drive in Ethan’s possession. What’s subsequent for Cruise then? He could also be leaving Ethan behind for some time, as his subsequent film, an untitled comedy from “The Revenant” director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is slated to launch Oct. 2, 2026. He additionally has an upcoming film set in area with director Doug Liman, the place he’s set to be the primary actor to do a spacewalk and shoot past Earth’s orbit.