"With Mr. Cruise, you can never count him down or out," Angela Bassett tells PEOPLE of costar Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is in theaters now The eighth film in the Tom Cruise action franchise,

Esai Morales is on a death-defying mission to make Tom Cruise’s life impossible, yet again, in the latest installment of the “Mission: Impossible” action film franchise. Titled “The Final Reckoning,” the movie was released Friday.

Impossible - The Final Reckoning.All signs point to new Mission: Impossible movie living up to its title and The Final Reckoning being the franchise's last movie, starring Tom Cruise, at least. The conclusion of a franchise is not infrequently the end for at least some characters in that franchise,

“Lilo & Stich” teamed with Tom Cruise for a monster Memorial Day box office weekend.Disney's live action version of “Lilo & Stich” earned a staggering $145.5 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, the second biggest domestic opening of the year after “A Minecraft Movie.”The movie is a faithful remake of the 2002 original's story of a six-legged alien and a Hawaiian girl that has created a big cult following in the decades since.Paramount Pictures' “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” the eighth and (probably) last appearance of Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a nearly three-decade run, was a distant second domestically, but still brought in a franchise record $63 million through Sunday, out-earning “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” which opened domestically to $61 million in 2018.And the spy thriller with Christopher McQuarrie directing for the first time in the franchise was the top global earner with $127 million," with “Lilo & Stich” bringing in $111 million.The previous film, 2023’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days in a July opening, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over a three-day weekend.

It didn’t have Tom Cruise dangling from an airplane — it didn’t even have Peter Graves thumbing through IMF dossiers in his apartment — but the Mission: Impossible TV pilot still managed to light the fuse on one of Hollywood’s biggest action franchises.

With each of the Mission: Impossible movies, it feels like Tom Cruise 's commitment to pulling off unimaginable stunts is plastered on the screen. Hayley Atwell shared that idea with us, too, during an interview with CinemaBlend’s Jeff McCobb. When asked about the submarine scene specifically, she said:

"This is a big journalism show, so I got to get to the bottom of it, because there are questions," Butler began on Wednesday's edition of "The Pat McAfee Show." "Now, you're Tom Cruise and you do everything a little different.