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,

Impossible – Dead Reckoning, has seized control of nuclear weapons from all world powers, except the United States, and is prepared to blow up the world and start Earth over with a blank slate run by the few survivors.