Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) by Cork B — 04 Jan 2019

Imagine if James Bond movies always had Sean Connery in them. And they were (almost) always good. That is kinda what you get from the Mission Impossible series now running for over 20 years. Tom Cruise still looks good and has that frenetic running style. Maybe he took a slight hit getting beaten up in the rest room, but then he comes out swinging in a cavalcade of action sequences strung in to a movie.

You might vaguely recall the Point Break remake from a couple of years back. That movie rivaled this one for stunts and scenery, but while PB was all stunts and nothing else, MI has settled in to a relationship film of sorts - with the girlfriend, ex-wife, and his team (Pegg and Rhames). And of course this amps up the stakes for Cruise as he has to run from friend to friend to save them. Much of this is predictable of course, and the world is at stake AGAIN; but Fallout again does a great job of retreading what is a very familiar story. There are even scenes that point out how Cruise is a hamster on a wheel and trapped.

Supporting cast is so-so. Lane is nice and creepy. Superman plays the ass pretty well. Alec Baldwin is killed - so that is always a plus in a movie.

I am starting to feel bad for Cruise's character - every movie he saves the world, and then he gets second and third guessed by suits in Washington - there goes the guy that saved the world the wrong way!