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.

Ethan Hunt and his Dead Reckoning team are back one last time for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, but does Tom Cruise’s character meet his maker? You might be surprised to learn Cruise’s first-ever mission was as long ago as 1996,

“Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning,” a Paramount Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for “bloody images, action, brief language, and sequences of strong violence.” Running time: 179 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.