Should Ethan Hunt have died in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning? Christopher McQuarrie explains why that would have been the wrong choice.

A still from Ghost Protocol (Image via Paramount) The climax scene of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has Ethan Hunt crawling out of a wrecked car with the mission to disarm a nuclear missile.

Cruise was back as Ethan Hunt in May’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” which set a franchise opening weekend record with $200 million globally.

Global box office: $540.8 million Budget: $400 million Ethan Hunt has thwarted ruthless arms dealers, brutal terrorists, even some batshit AI, but the super spy was no match for basic economics.

That’s the creed of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team, who have saved the world from nuclear weapons, shadow organizations, and existential threats like the Entity, a self-aware ...

He takes off the mask to reveal his true identity and fights off an assailant in what seems to be a nod to Tom Cruise’s character in Mission Impossible, Ethan Hunt.