I brightened up over the The Final Reckoning part of the new Mission: Impossible title, figuring if it really is the final reckoning, we all have something to celebrate. After all, retirements are happy occasions.

And Tom Cruise is finally showing his age a wee bit, looking in certain shots as if his face had puffed up like a Pillsbury crescent roll and in others as if it had melted slightly like ice cream. Though of course the body remains ripped, and Cruise always has his shirt torn off in fight scenes to prove it. The whole Mission: Impossible franchise that kicked off in 1996 is very long in the tooth by now. I had a brief, admittedly delusional hope that it could be exciting again if all the main characters die in the end because that last mission to save the world really did turn out to be impossible.

But in the end of this sequel, it’s clear that this doesn’t have to be the final reckoning at all. And given the enormous profits — along with the hit Lilo & Stitch live-action remake, Mission: Impossible 2025 has made this Memorial Day weekend the biggest box-office haul in history — there will always be somebody in Hollywood with a new idea for a sequel.