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Jul 27, 2018 · Fast, sleek, and fun, Mission: Impossible - Fallout lives up to the "impossible" part of its name by setting yet another high mark for insane set pieces in a franchise full of them. Read...
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- Christopher Mcquarrie
- PG-13
- Tom Cruise
Jul 27, 2018 · There’s a thematic undercurrent through “Fallout” as to how much one should be willing to sacrifice for the greater good—the classic spy flick question of killing someone you love to save the lives of millions you don’t (it’s the action movie equivalent of “The Trolley Problem”).
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the best film of its franchise and one of the best action movies of all time. Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2023
- A fun but very familiar entry in the long-running franchise.
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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 27, 2018 · Mission: Impossible - Fallout: Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg. Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
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- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Christopher McQuarrie
- 2018-07-27
Jul 25, 2018 · Mission: Impossible — Fallout Rated PG-13 for violence, including gun play and dangerous driving, diving, running, leaping, flying. Running time: 2 hours 27 minutes.
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