Some Mission: Impossible fans think Dead Reckoning's major death is a fake out - and I *need* them to be right
Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One . If you've yet to watch the movie, turn back now!
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One features more death-defying moments than you can count, from Simon Pegg's Benji trying to diffuse a bomb seconds before it detonates to Tom Cruise's Ethan yeeting himself off a cliff face. It's hardly surprising; the franchise has always been chock-full of characters' close shaves – but unfortunately, this time around, not everyone makes it to the credits alive.
In the movie, after reuniting with his IMF pals, Ethan and Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson) infiltrate a party being held by arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis (Vanessa Kirby) in Venice. There, they hope to identify who Grace, Hayley Atwell's wily pickpocket, is selling The Entity-controlling key to, so that they can follow them to whatever it unlocks and destroy it. Things goes sideways, though, when Gabriel (Esai Morales) interrupts the shin-dig and orders Alanna, at the behest of all-knowing AI villain The Entity, to either kill Grace or Ilsa.
The characters scatter, which ultimately leads to a confrontation between Ilsa and Gabriel, and the former being fatally stabbed by the film's corporeal baddie. It's a moment that is supposed to hit especially hard, as earlier on, we learned that Ethan joined the IMF all those years ago after Gabriel murdered a woman he was once close to. In reality, though, Ilsa's death is just frustrating. So much so that several fans have convinced themselves that she's actually still alive and will appear in Dead Reckoning Part Two, and I really hope they're right.
Before we get into why, check out some reactions to the shock twist below...
Ilsa is not
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