Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) by Calvin E — 08 Aug 2018

Was this one of those movies where critics were paid off to post a bunch of awesome reviews? They had my hopes up high. But after seeing the movie, the tomato scores don't make sense. Relative to other action movies this movie was decent.

Relative to other MI movies, this was probably my least favorite. It had several really good action scenes - overall the action was really good. But the plot and story of this one - it was too complicated, it was not compelling.

I knew from the (spoiler) start, when there wasn't a good opening sequence, that something was off. The opening sequence was slow and was just setting up the story. Also, the cast felt a little tired because the story was lacking.

Rebecca Ferguson was used to great effect in the last MI installment. This story tried to use her in the same way but it was not as interesting, repetitive. Simon Pegg is excellent in everything he does, but he and Ving Rhames are becoming sort of flat characters in the franchise.

I think new supporting characters would be more interesting. Henry Cavill was a great casting choice and he was decent character but the story wasn't up to par for his character. And in general, the motivations of the antagonists were really hard to relate to.

I hope they make more MI's but maybe do a bit of a reboot, or find a really dynamic and new story.