Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) by Viniciusbrito — 05 Aug 2018

Continuing the story of the previous film, this sequence takes place a few years after Ethan Hunt imprison Solomane Lane and kind of taken the Syndicate down, but in this one we find out that a lot of members of it are still operants and are now called of apostles. After a mission goes wrong, Ethan and his team needs to work against the clock and fight their way to the objective. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

Mission: Impossible-Fallout is the longer movie in the franchise, I didn't felt that the story was that good, it still seems to be just an excuse for the action scenes to happen, but I gotta say that the story was at least very functional, it did had some nice twists. There is some coincidences and some motivations that aren't very clear, somethings really didn't make much sense. But generally, the narrative was very entertaining. The movie have different moments, it does have some emotional moments, and some solutions from old stories.

Tom Cruise in this movie is one more time awesome, the big thing in his work is that he trully likes what he is doing, it challenges him, and that is totally noticiable and makes a completely difference for the audience, for me, personally, it makes way more easier to board in that journey with him, and his acting was on point as well. Rebecca Ferguson in this one had a little less time than in the last one, but still she is great, she indeed killed in this one, she is mysterious and badass, in this one she also had a little more sentimental part, and for me she sold it very well, so as the action scenes one more time that she was perfect. Henry Cavill do a good job, his physicality helped him a lot for this role, the action moments that he use his strenght worked out very well, in the acting he was also very functional, his character is kind of a not very expressive one, but he had a nice tone. Vanessa Kirby is also in this movie and she convinced me in what she did, she doesn't had much screen, but she was that obstinate and confident character, I bought it. Sean Harris does the same thing that he did in the last one, not very developed, but still, he did very well. Michelle Monaghan is back at the franchise, and she was affectionate, and I believed that she was the same character, was very good. Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames are both good, they are a comic relief and also very importants for the plot to go on. Alec Baldwin don't have much time, but he was good, mainly in the twist moment, he had a nice tone.

The action scenes are once again outstanding, sincerely I can't think in much other movies that have better action moments than this one. This movie do some stuff that are really glorifying, so as the last ones also did, wich is mainly not use stunt doubles, not use cgi, no green scree, with everything being real it makes a completely diference, it let us feel better the environment, help us to be in the place. The directing in the action are great, the camera work very well, always following the actors during the scenes, the movie have a lot of giant moments, I have seen behind the scenes of all of them, becaus at first I wasn't believing that he really did all of that, and I was shocked, because some parts that I was sure that wasn't real, it was. Since the moment that they are in the plane in Paris it was great, the mise-en-scène let me be really comfortable there, and when they jumped, damn, that was fabulous, not just the filming that was genius, but the job that the actors did in the air was great, it was convincing and the sequence had some tension and sense of urgency because of the time. The previous movie had one of, if not, the best motorcycle sequences in movies history, in this one they pretty much reached the same level if not overcame that, the sequence in London here are insane, not just breathtaking but beautiful to watch as well, here the cameras also had a great job, following the characters in a way that is different, isn't like just walking side by side, but when the character fall, the camera have a dash, it was fantastic, the pursuing around the cars, that was just so great. The third insane action sequence, was in the helicopter, that Tom Cruise actually learned to fly a helicopter just for it to look more real here and also did all of the part around the helicopter he really did it, when I say that the actor is so badass as the character, I mean it, and the whole sequence there have a great footage, it is really well filmed, and also breathtaking, can make you sweat during it, the action here is just outstanding.

The cinematography is very good, not just for the camera moviment and positioning that I already mentioned, but the colors are very pretty and alive, the movie takes place in different places and environments and it allows they to do a diversity that are so great as the second one, in this one have a snow parts that were really beautiful, not just that, but they use the place very well.