The Final Reckoning is billed and marketed as the last film in Cruise's long-running Mission: Impossible series, but the reality is very different. So, how likely is a sequel? Directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Cruise alongside Hayley Atwell,

While the film has an air of finality about it, both with the title and the fact that it brings the franchise full circle with various references and callbacks, the fact that Ethan Hunt survives means the door is potentially always open for more impossible missions.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie has explained the movie's final moments and reveals why Tom Cruise made the call to scrap a planned post-credits scene