Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018

     This film is a sequel to Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.  Ethan Hunt successfully captured Solomon Lane two years ago.  The remnants of his Syndicate have reformed into another organization called the Apostles.  Under the leadership of John Lark, the Apostles plan to acquire three plutonium cores.  Ethan and his team are sent to Berlin to intercept the cores.  The mission fails when Ethan saves Luther and the Apostles escape with the cores.  CIA agent August Walker has also joined Ethan’s team.  The team must find the cores before they are detonated resulting in massive destruction.

     This is the sixth installment of the Mission franchise.  This is a complicated film with a lot of characters.  There are so many twists and turns and episodes of imminent danger that they are difficult to take in??  All the stunts are real and CGI is not an element.  It seems ‘impossible’ that Tom Cruise does all these stunts himself.  Much of the scenery is very beautiful.  There are a LOT of expensive BMW motorcycles, expensive BMW cars including a 1986 5 Series 2^nd-gen E28 model, three helicopters and a LOT of chase scenes.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)  

           

147 min, Action directed by Christopher McQuarrie with Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan, Wes Bentley, Frederick Schmidt, Alec Baldwin, Liang Yang, Kristoffer Joner, Wolf Blitzer.

Note:  Imdb 7.8 out of 10, 97% critic 88% audience, Roger Ebert 4*, Metacritic 86 out of 100 with 60 reviews 8.2 out of 10 with 709 reviews, Rolling Stone Peter Travers 4* out of 5*, The Guardian 4* out of 5* Simran Hans, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 1094 reviews.

Special Note:  The budget was estimated at $178 million and worldwide gross was $791,107,538 for a profit of $613,107,538.  There will be another Mission:Impossible because this film finished with a profit.  Tom Cruise trained for an entire year to perform the HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) stunt in this film.  This sequence was a distance of 7 km / 25000 feet, traveling at the speed of 265 – 320 km/h and it required a year of planning to perfect.  Cruise was injured in a stunt jumping from one building to another.  His ankle fractured and shooting was delayed for 8 weeks.  This is the longest Mission film at 2 hours and 27 minutes.