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- While the Mission: Impossible films remain a winning formula overall, Fallout also shows the franchise straining itself to stay vital and fresh after twenty-two years and five previous films. By bringing back so many familiar faces and making callbacks to earlier films, Fallout feels like the most self-aware of the Mission: Impossible movies.
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- 'Mission: Impossible III' (2006) THE PITCH: When he isn’t busy wooing, and eventually wedding, Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan), a nurse who knows nothing about his spy-guy activities, Ethan Hunt leads his IMF team in pursuit of a MacGuffin-ish device (known as “Rabbit’s Foot”) coveted by arms dealer Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
- 'Mission: Impossible II' (2000) THE PITCH: Ethan Hunt convinces beautiful thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton) to renew her affair with IMF turncoat Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) in order to retrieve vials of an artificially created virus.
- 'Mission: Impossible' (1996) THE PITCH: After IMF chief Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) dies in the line of duty — yeah, right — special agent Ethan Hunt must assume command of a mission to keep a list of deep-cover CIA operatives from being sold by an IMF mole.
- 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' (2011) THE PITCH: After Ethan Hunt is (wrongly) blamed for destroying a significant section of the Kremlin, the Impossible Missions Force is temporarily disbanded.
- A fun but very familiar entry in the long-running franchise.
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout Gallery
- Verdict
By Jim Vejvoda
Updated: Jul 14, 2018 12:05 am
Posted: Jul 12, 2018 11:58 pm
The lasting appeal of the Mission: Impossible film franchise has been to watch Tom Cruise perform increasingly dangerous (and over-the-top) stunts in cool locations around the world. And seeing Cruise’s IMF agent Ethan Hunt run, fight, jump, shoot, drive, run, fly, crash, climb, and -- did we mention run? -- his way through life-or-death situations is, fittingly, also the most memorable aspect of this latest installment, Mission: Impossible - Fallout. While the Mission: Impossible films remain a winning formula overall, Fallout also shows the franchise straining itself to stay vital and fresh after twenty-two years and five previous films.
By bringing back so many familiar faces and making callbacks to earlier films, Fallout feels like the most self-aware of the Mission: Impossible movies. This is the franchise’s most direct sequel yet with Rogue Nation’s Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), villain Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), and Alec Baldwin’s intelligence honcho Alan Hunley all back in key roles. (Fallout also marks the first time an M:I director, Rogue Nation’s Christopher McQuarrie, has returned to helm another installment.)
Ethan’s past then, as Solomon Lane would have us believe, is finally catching up to him here. Lane wants Hunt to see the world order he’s long protected destroyed and lose what he loves the most. Unfortunately, Lane remains a one-note and uninteresting bad guy. He’s a lot of talk and not much personality. Fallout’s decision to bring him back comes across as a gimmick in order to create a motivation for a villain the movie otherwise didn’t have much interest in developing. Lane himself is a MacGuffin for most of the movie, a villain seemingly so devious that he’s pulling strings even when he appears subdued, like the Joker in The Dark Knight or Silva in Skyfall, but Lane’s just not compelling or intriguing enough to really be impressed by.
Sheer adrenaline mostly sustains Fallout even when its story runs out of steam and the film way overstays its welcome with an overlong and trope-riddled finale. Its big twists are hardly surprising because it’s been way too obvious all along who can’t be trusted, and the franchise has already done variations on such scenes in every other movie. Even the action scenes -- as fun as they all are, and as fully committed as Cruise remains to risking his own neck for our entertainment -- never quite feel distinct from what’s come before.
As hugely entertaining as many of the action set-pieces are here -- particularly the brutal bathroom brawl, the HALO jump, the Parisian motorcycle chase, and the helicopter battle -- none of them prove as breathtaking or as memorable as the franchise’s biggest past standout moments, such as the CIA vault break-in, Ethan climbing the Burj Khalifa or clinging to the side of an ascending cargo plane.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout’s set-pieces still pack plenty of punch and give the viewer their money’s worth, but the film seems to acknowledge that we’ve all been down this road many times before. It never quite improves upon or distinguishes itself from previous entries in the decades-old franchise, but seeing Tom Cruise perform the Impossible s...
Jul 15, 2022 · 4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) If you’re watching the Mission: Impossible movies in order, then Rogue Nation, the fifth entry in the...
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- Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One' (2023) Director: Christopher McQuarrie. For as impossibly good as Mission: Impossible - Fallout was, its follow-up, Dead Reckoning Part One, is somehow better.
- Impossible - Fallout' (2018) Director: Christopher McQuarrie. The sixth Mission: Impossible movie also happens to be one of the very best, partly thanks to its stellar use of the 2.5-hour runtime to deliver numerous high-quality action setpieces.
- Impossible - Ghost Protocol' (2011) Director: Brad Bird. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol might've been the first time the series established itself as one that could be genuinely great rather than merely very good.
- Impossible - Rogue Nation' (2015) Director: Christopher McQuarrie. The fifth movie in the Mission Impossible series, 2015's Rogue Nation, is an immensely satisfying action/adventure film.
Jul 12, 2018 · In “Fallout,” the mission is clear: Recover three plutonium cores before Lark and a terrorist organization known as the Apostles can use them to target the Vatican, Jerusalem, and Mecca in a...
Jul 27, 2018 · Ethan Hunt ( Tom Cruise) has to get the plutonium back, but there’s a ghost haunting him in the form of Solomon Lane ( Sean Harris ), the villain from the last film who Hunt left alive instead of killing.
Jul 25, 2018 · The setup doesn’t fully work and could be read as an example of gay panic rather than a swat at it. But it shrewdly frames Mr. Cruise as being as self-aware as he is famously controlling.
