Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) by Marcelo A — 15 Aug 2018

Every franchise has its ups and downs. Some very good movies, some bad movies, some more or less. But Tom Cruise has provided us with a sequence of impossible missions ever better than the other.

In fact, there is no mystery to creating the films of the serie. It's a killer cake recipe that mixes absurd scenes, twists in the script, betrayals, a simple story explained right away (almost always the good guy has to stop the villain in his attempt to dominate or destroy the world), some surprises and Tom Cruise defying death.

And every movie your Ethan Hunt seems to be over the edge. This is how we want it. This is how we like it.

The great mystery even of "Mission Impossible" is like the 56 year old actor has the breath and willingness to do so much exercise! In "Fallout Effect", Tom Cruise runs UNBELIEFLY for London with rooftop jumps, stars in an impressive chase scene in the streets of Paris, pilots a helicopter and suffers an accident that would kill anyone in Kashmir. And still fight with Superman! All this having to climb a mountain at the end to save a third of the planet. China, India and Pakistan are grateful for their dedication.

No wonder Luther (Ving Rhames) says, "This is my man!".

"Fallout Effect" is that classic spy story Hunt style. There is a traitor in the agency, you have to find a terrorist, you have to prevent plutonium bombs from killing humanity. In the midst of all this, there is the Syndicate, a group of terrorists who have been demobilized since the arrest of Solomon Lane (Sean Harris).

The situation in Washington is also not very good. The IMF is questioned after Ethan lets out the plutonium warheads to save his friends Luther and Benji (Simon Pegg). Because of this, the CIA decides to put the stick on the table and say "now it's my way". Thus, they recruit the mustachioed agent August Walker (Henry Cavill) to be Hunt's shadow and act more assertively on the mission.

From there the plot develops in that climate everyone distrusts everyone. Even more so after Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) comes full of mysteries saying she can not say anything, she can not say anything. "But trust me." Ilsa, this is a world of spies. You do not even trust the shade.

"Mission Impossible: Fallout Effect" is guaranteed fun and keeps the Ethan Hunt franchise alive. It remains to be seen how Tom Cruise will be able to take risks in ever more surreal scenes. Especially since each film seems to have to set new limits. Or keep the previous ones.