After nearly 30 years, three on-screen deaths, and at least a dozen wild stunts, Ethan Hunt and Mission: Impossible have approached some kind of end with The Final Reckoning. The question now is “what’s next?,” which has hovered over this franchise for years, and in several different ways.

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.

At the end of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cruise manages to wrestle the AI key from Gabriel while the pair fight in the cockpit of a biplane. Gabriel falls from the plane, hitting his head on the tail and plummeting to the Earth (the fall will have killed him, but we don't actually see him die).

It’s not clear when it happened — sometime in the past 30 years — but the Mission: Impossible movies gradually evolved into Hollywood’s most dependable modern action franchise. Figuring out how this happened is far easier: Star Tom Cruise ‘s legendary willingness to do anything and everything to make each film a blockbuster while — as the franchise’s most powerful producer — savvily finding creative partners that bring out his best.

The Final Reckoning” racked up a combined $190 million in worldwide ticket sales through Sunday, including $63 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to Paramount Pictures.