Director Christopher McQuarrie blasts his genius and lets Tom Cruise outdo himself to cement the finest entry in the "Mission: Impossible" series. "Fallout" defuses the earlier five movies, effectively becoming a legendary piece of action cinema. Cruise and McQuarrie reminds audiences that the franchise is pumped with firepower and technical achievement.
"Mission: Impossible - Fallout" sees Ethan Hunt (Cruise) return for a renewed run as as a wild IMF agent. He is tasked to recover three platonium cores and protect it from a terrorist group known as The Apostles. In a zesty twist of fate, the mission goes awry when Hunt opts to save his teammate, Luther (Ving Rhames), and the cores are taken by the terrorists. Hunt, Luther, and Benji (Simon Pegg) is then forced to retrieve the plutonium and prevent a ponderous nuclear carnage.
Beginning the checklist of impossible drama is the highly-touted HALO jump that was pulled of by Cruise himself from a scintillatingly mammoth aircraft. The astonishing sequence is carved through a long take, as Cruise dives from the plane and the camera man captures his tremendous dive all the way to the rooftop of a Paris nightclub. Only when the viewers attempt to catch their air back from the sky, Quarry transfers the scene into the club's bathroom where he orchestrates one of the most visceral fist battles in movie history.
During the sequence, Hunt is joined by CIA Special Agent August Walker while they tear the bathroom apart to subdue a key plutonium buyer. The battle is devoid of any music, letting audiences succumb to the throbs and savage thuds of punches, kicks, elbows all breezing among broken tiles and glass. McQuarrie, a revelation of a director, teaches that the music of action is the sting plus drama of the fight's choreography.
"Mission: Impossible - Fallout" calls influences from Christopher Nolan's twistedly beautiful "The Dark Knight." "Fallout" captures the magnetic plunge of exploring Hunt's psyche, effectively opening the chance to develop his character. Never before in the series has Cruise made the famous agent more worthy of analytical and sensational investment. "Fallout" shows Hunt in probably his peak vulnerability, thus, charging the dangerous side of him into prime.
Cruise's rejuvenation is only a twinkle in this supernova of a film. It burns brighter with Rebecca Fergusson's Ilsa Faust, an MI6 operative. The series ultimately solves the puzzle of action heroine dynamics with her. Fergusson seethes with thrilling charisma that is almost at par with Cruise's. She is the cinema icon that the "Mission: Impossible" franchise needs. Her presence collects excitement then sizzles into action sequences and doubles the stakes of the movie -- she fuels the series over the limits of impossiblity.
Speaking of which, "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" does not even ask for suspension of disbelief. Upon witnessing its miraculously obsessive mania, believing it is as natural as savoring wind into the lungs. "Fallout" zooms beyond cinematic treat: it is now among the greatest action movies of all time. There is every amazing reason to believe that the franchise's mission will speed ahead.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
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