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- Rarely does a franchise outdo itself with each subsequent entry yet MI manages to pull it off. The story's gripping, the spy games are trippy, and the stunts might be the best ever scene on-screen.
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Jul 12, 2018 · The plot, should you choose to try and keep up, involves our IMF hero Ethan Hunt (Cruise) being given 72 measly hours to grab three nuclear cores that are on their way to The Apostles, a splinter...
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- 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 31, 2018 · Like many long-running blockbuster action series, Mission Impossible arguably jumped the shark a long time ago. But the latest entry takes that act to new heights.
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Jul 27, 2018 · The appeal of Mission: Impossible – Fallout is that it is a movie about playing spy games exclusively for the sake of the game. Early in the picture, Bassett bemoans that Ethan and his...
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team join forces with CIA assassin August Walker to prevent a disaster of epic proportions. Arms dealer John Lark and a group of terrorists known as the Apostles plan to use...
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- Christopher Mcquarrie
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Jul 24, 2018 · Mission: Impossible – Fallout review – the best action-thriller of the year so far. Ethan Hunt returns for yet more spy antics in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. The best one since the first?
Jul 12, 2018 · A fun but very familiar entry in the long-running franchise.
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