The very best Mission: Impossible movie—and, yes, one of the best action movies I’ve seen in my entire life—is Mission: Impossible — Fallout. Fallout picks up where Rogue Nation leaves off, with Ethan Hunt working alongside his team (Pegg and Rhames, though Renner is inexplicably gone) with a newly-installed IMF secretary, played by Alec Baldwin (coming over from the CIA after Rogue Nation). Fallout finds the stakes higher than ever before, which is really saying something: the movie centers on the plot of an evil secret society that’s working with an unknown man named John Lark—and they have three nuclear bombs. That’s when it’s time for Ethan Hunt to do his thing.
This movie features action sequences that are simultaneously the most visually-stunning and excitingly tense things you’ve ever seen. Henry Cavill joins the cast as Walker, and it’s by far the best he’s ever been in any movie, and simultaneously one of the best characters in any Mission: Impossible movie as well. The man reloads his fists like they’re guns during the movie’s famous bathroom fight—and that’s just the beginning! Cruise and Cavill have an incredible dynamic throughout the movie, jumping out of airplanes, flying around in helicopters, shooting guns, and more.
Fallout is everything that the Mission: Impossible franchise can and should be: big, fun, exciting, and, perhaps against all odds for a movie so utterly thrilling? Smart. It’s a smart movie! And it’s a total blast along the way
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