Does ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ have a post-credits scene?

Nowadays, post-credits scenes are as much a part of the moviegoing experience as munching on overpriced popcorn or bursting for a pee halfway through. Thanks to Marvel Studios, audiences are now conditioned to always expect, or at least suspect, that some kind of tag scene setting up a sequel will drop either in the middle or at the end of the film’s lengthy credits. So once we’ve sat through the latest blockbuster to hit multiplexes, we all think the same thing: wait, does this one have a post-credits scene or not?

And so now it is the turn of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise’s latest attempt to save cinemas singlehanded. The seventh entry in the never-ending spy action/adventure franchise overall, as its title gives away, Dead Reckoning is only the first half of an epic two-part storyline, which will conclude in Dead Reckoning Part Two next summer. So you might well think that it has a tag sequence hidden in its credits to tease the next movie. But is this the case?

Is there an end-credits scene in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One?

Good news, those of you who need to make a quick getaway. I can confirm that no, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning does not have a post-credits scene of any sort. Nothing in the middle, nothing at the end.

That shouldn’t come as a huge surprise as the M:I films have never gone in for this sort of thing before, given that this series predates the whole post-credits craze by quite some time — Tom Cruise has been saving the world as Ethan Hunt since 1996, remember. Plus, with Dead Reckoning clocking in with such a hefty runtime that it’s easily the longest entry in the franchise to date, it’s not like there’s really much else it needs to do.

As for how the movie does actually end, you’ll have to find out for yourself as I’m not about to drop any spoilers here. Catch Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in theaters worldwide from July 12.