Mission: Impossible – Fallout

In the winding career of  the last movie star, Tom Cruse, he is holding on for dear life, chugging out these Mission: Impossible movies, which is a great way to do it.

Of course, at one point he was offered an even better way.

I never thought we would actually get to the point in which we would see a six installments of the franchise. No matter how good you think Mission Impossible III was it should not have even gotten that far, but I do feel it was that movie that started the franchise in going the direction of a true franchise.

Fallout once again features Cruse as Ethan Hunt, head of the Mission: Impossible field agents. Continuing from the movies previous Ethan and his team have to stop a rogue agency from using stolen plutonium to make three nuclear bombs.

Once again on his side is Luther Stickell, played by Ving Rhames who was been in every Mission: Impossible movie since number one, and let me tell you, I love just seeing that Ving Rhames is still in this franchise. As good as Ghost Protocol was on it’s own the best part about it was that they did not forget about Luther who made a cameo at the end. Also joining him again is Benji Dunn played by Simon Pegg who has been doing this since Mission Impossible III . It was a little weird having both Luther and Benji in the last Mission: Impossible work together simply because they do the same job and there is really no need for both, but one of the things that makes Fallout so nice is how aware it is that Mission: Impossible is about a team lead by Hunt. A theme that goes through out the movie.

Another theme the franchise seems to be following is serialization. Meaning that since three, the adventures of Ethan Hunt and his team have become episodic. In a lot of ways I like it cause it makes a lot of the missions more mimic those done in the original series (only bigger obviously). Although it does mean that you have to have seen the other Mission Impossible movies to follow the actual story that’s going on.

However, if you chose not to follow the story, Fallout is filled with some great and unique action sequences that were outright impressive. Mission: Impossible goes for the more realistic and low tone over the archetype dramatic.

It’s a change of tone that allows the filmmakers to add humor to the movie that blends in pretty well (Better if you have been following the Mission: Impossible franchise).

I like Alec Baldin in the film as the Secretary of State who gets to do a little more action in this film and also like Henry Cavil in the film as well. Honestly everyone else in the movie seem more like fluff to try to give the movie more meat but did not do much for me (I’m gonna take flack for that considering that the other cast members are  Rebecca Ferguson who turns to the franchise as ilsa Michelle Monaghan, who has played Ethan’s love interest Julia since number 3, and Angela Basset who plays the head of the CIA (It feels like she was playing the same role in the JJ Abrams produced show, Alias).

I thought Mission: Impossible Fallout was a great movie, it’s good action and if you are into the franchise the humor is nice, especially between Cruse Rhames and Pegg  who lead the charge. Not the best movie in the world but I could watch it over and over again.