The following is a movie review “Mission Impossible: - Fallout” by Marc Primo.
Release date: July 27, 2018 (United States)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Language: English
Production companies: Skydance Media, Alibaba Pictures, Bad Robot Productions
Producers: J. J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, Jake Myers
“A high-octane action film featuring a stellar cast oozing with highly contagious adrenaline.”
If I had to write a 3-second review of ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’, that would pretty much be it. But considering the running time of almost two and a half hours, it would be an injustice not to acknowledge the jaw-dropping leaps, bounds, twists, and turns that director Christopher McQuarrie and the film’s raison d'être Tom Cruise managed to cram in this sixth installment of the impossibly successful franchise.
In ‘Fallout’, Ethan Hunt and team are dispatched to Berlin where their mission is to intercept a trio of plutonium cores, which a mysterious fundamentalist by the name of John Lark plans to acquire. The operation fails when Hunt rescues Luther (Ving Rhames), allowing Lark and his cohorts to escape with the plutonium. With the help of CIA operative August Walker (Henry Cavill), Hunt and company find themselves in a race against time to locate the plutonium cores and stop Lark from carrying out his nefarious plan.
While you won’t find any spoilers here, what I will say is that the final cut of ‘Fallout’ is nothing short of a master class in entertainment. To say that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts would be like a gunshot to the kneecaps of McQuarrie and Cruise, both of whom must be given mad props for painstakingly shooting every sequence with such panache that the blood, sweat, and tears of their heroic efforts practically drip onto the movie reel.
And with an ensemble cast featuring Tinseltown A-listers like Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett, and Alec Baldwin geared up for this white-knuckle ride, walking out of the movie theater not feeling pumped as the end credits roll would simply be… impossible.
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