Your mission if you choose to accept it is to see the new Mission Impossible movie to hit theaters. In Mission Impossible: Fallout, Ethan and the IMF team return for a sixth time as they search for an arms dealer named John Lark and the terrorist group known as the Apostles in order to extract information on the locations of 3 plutonium cores that are set blow up simultaneously. Ethan works with one the CIA’s best operatives August Walker to find Lark and to stop the bombs from going off. Not the most original plot, but are action movies typically known for their complex plots, I think not.
The bad guys in this movie called the Apostles all believe in one thing. “Their cannot be peace without a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace”. Yet another group of a-holes who try to play God with the whole purging of the earth thing, tragic. Not if Ethan Hunt and his team have anything to say about it though.
If you think Tom Cruise has done his craziest stunts already, think again. In Mission 6, Tom jumps from building to building Assassins Creed style, although not quite as graceful, jumps onto a moving helicopter and then takes a relaxing drive down the streets of Paris going the wrong way at a brisk 100 miles an hour. And of course the part where he is running through an office building and he stops at the window only to have Benji who is tracking his location say “why did you stop”? Ethan replies “I’m jumping out a window”. Afterwards, Ethan does just that as he flies like Superman over to the adjacent building.
Speaking of Superman, the actor who plays him Henry Cavil is in this movie. And he is the bad guy, well one of them. The fight/helicopter chase scene with him and Ethan towards the end was one of the best parts of any of the films. Even after both choppers crash, the fight doesn’t end there, as Ethan desperately tries to get the remote detonator from Walker to stop the bombs from going off.
Not to forget about the British butt kicking agent IIsa, who chases Tom early on via motor bike in one truly intense and well choreographed scene. The action is what you pay for in any Mission movie and Fallout definitely delivers. The characters are the second best part followed by the plot. Also the locals aren’t to shabby neither.
Overall, Mission Impossible: Fallout may be the best of the series so far. Is has the highest quality action scenes, engaging characters and story and of course Tom Cruise. What else could you possibly ask for in a summer blockbuster. Not every mission is a choice, but in this case, I would say that if you enjoy going to the movies, then go see Mission Impossible: Fallout now. “This message will self-destruct in seconds”.
Nerdish Rating
5 out of 5
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