The Mission: Impossible franchise seemed to be setting up Gabriel to be its most fearsome villain yet, but Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoningundoes all of that in a genuinely confusing way ...

“Oh God, that was brutal,” Cruise remembered as the director noted: “This separated the joints in Tom’s fingers from the force, so by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen — oh my God, it was so painful to watch.”

Sure, they have been improbable, but it seems that the team can achieve just about anything. Was it any surprise then that, even after how it was built up as the fight of a lifetime, Hunt and co. ultimately defeated Gabriel (Esai Morales) and the Entity in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning?