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Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Director – Christopher McQuarrie
Cast – Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill and Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris and Michelle Monaghan
– 4/5

Ethan, Benji and Luther arrive at the rendezvous point – a dark alley in the middle of the night. This is how Mission: Impossible – Fallout begins. Benji can not help but notice that there are no clean escape routes. He is nervous. Beside him, Ethan studies the area and their options. If they reached a roadblock, they would be dead in a few minutes. If the enemy makes a move, they would be dead in seconds. It's a difficult situation, but they have already gone there. They survived worse before. Together – and Ethan knows it better than anyone else – they can do the impossible. So he looks Benji straight in his worried eyes, shows himself brave and says, as sincerely as he can, "I will not let anything happen, Benji."

And Benji believes him, because he's not right not to – even though he's trapped in a dead end alley, and even though the future of the The world is at stake. Over the years, Ethan has always been there for him and his team. He never let them down. His enemies call him the "fundamental flaw" in his character – he appreciates life, he values ​​people, and he risks everything to protect them.

It's this loyalty that plunges Ethan and his crew into their next adventure at Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the franchise ever more exhilarating

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For me, the series has always been defined by individual moments rather than larger arcs. For example – and you can corroborate it – we all remember highlights from previous films – the Burj Khalifa sequence, Owen Davian's threats, the ingenious Scooby Doo-esque demos – but very few of them. Between you would remember the details. They invariably involve international arms dealers and defectors, shady organizations and a total and total lack of trust in Ethan and his IMF team.

In this regard, Fallout is the clbadic Impossible Mission. It's perhaps also the first film in the series that looks a lot like a direct sequel to its immediate predecessor – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015. The most obvious connective tissue, besides director Christopher McQuarrie of course, is the bad guy, Solomon Lane.

I was somewhat disappointed with Lane in Rogue Nation, mainly because Sean Harris's cast had initially seemed such a brilliant idea , until his character turns out to be a Silva cousin of Skyfall by Javier Bardem, and ended up having too little screen time to really establish his presence.

Fallout does not quite solve Solomon Lane's problem, despite his character's Dark Knight approach, but makes better use of his anarchist ideologies and retroactively reconciles some of Rogue Nation's issues. The stakes, as always, are global. But since Ethan and Lane have a story together, there is a personal element to their relationship, the series of which has been sorely lacking since Mission: Impossible III – my favorite …

Mission: Impossible – Fallout hits many of the same rhythms as the previous movies – there are double crosses and triple crosses and there is the obligatory scene where ethan's scorn for rules prompts leaders to put it on a leash. Then they badign him a chaperone, a disarming beef name called Walker, played by Henry Cavill – who incidentally receives a second performance after Tom Cruise in the delightfully retro opening credits, and positively exudes machismo. Walker's allegiances, of course, are uneven – and Cavill plays him less like a head of equality than he could have, which is always a good thing.

But it is essential to the procedure, especially to the third act. At the risk of going on the hunt – and conveniently ignoring the spying elements of the story – let's just move to the end. You've seen excerpts from the trailers, and you may have heard that it's happening in Kashmir – that's true, although our censorship council has ensured that the word "cashmere" never spoken in the movie.

For his last magic trick, Tom Cruise learned not only to fly a helicopter, but also to perform acrobatics in himself. This testifies to his manic ambition: despite the unnecessary jump of the HALO in the film, by the time the incredible finale unfolds, the view of Cruise jumping from an airplane is almost forgotten.

There is a rhythmic ecstasy to Mission: Impossible – The Fallout Action Scenes, a melodic glory that is not only rare but almost unheard of on this scale. And it's quiet, all that – which is unusual for McQuarrie, an Oscar winner known for his quick dialogue and his strong understanding of genre tropes. So when the action occurs – and much of the plot of this movie is just an excuse to get to the next sequence of crazy stunts – it's breathtaking scenic, with a sound design which makes the chairs on which you sit like a dance vibrate.

Twice, the screen explodes in the IMAX report, that fans of Christopher Nolan's films would know to be one of the purest and happiest moments that we can live in a cinema

. only time reminded me of Nolan during Mission: Impossible – Fallout. A sequence of Paris – by far my favorite piece of the film – is almost like a remake of The Dark Knight's ambush Joker scene, with a score inspired by Hans Zimmer (by one of his former Remote Control Productions minions, Lorne Balfe). ), practical effects and visual ingenuity

and in almost all settings, founding the often cartoonish narrative in the realism and emotional weight, Tom Cruise. I have nothing worthwhile to add to the conversation around him, except to say that he will surprise you in this movie – he will make his karate mark, because that's what you want; he risks his life by jumping buildings and planes, because he respects you too much to sell you a product of poor quality. But he will surprise you.

Because that's what we want, is not it, after six movies? We want to know more about Ethan Hunt, what motivates him – and Cruise – to risk his life every day. With James Bond, it was the queen and the country; with Jason Bourne it was a personal quest, but with Ethan Hunt, there has always been talk of his friends, his team and the relationships he's been building over the years, although he know that emotion can only cause him more problems.

But he is older now. He understands life and death better than anyone else. It's worth it, these guys – Benji and Luther and Brandt and Ilsa and Julia. They are all worth fighting for. The fuse has already been turned on. He just needs to make sure he does not go out.

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