Tom Cruise is feeling very thankful today. In an Instagram message this morning, Cruise showed his appreciation for the opening weekend success of his Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: The latest (and possibly final) film in the franchise hit $204 million worldwide.

Actor Rolf Saxon tells IndieWire all about returning to reprise his role in the eighth film, after starring in the first one almost three decades ago.

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.

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).

Just as I’ve complimented Alien: Romulus’ 4DX variant as the movie that let me safely experience airlock decompression, the technical wizards who converted Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning for 4DX deserve credit for upping the game on this last dash for digital supremacy.