"Mission: Impossible, Fallout": Tom Cruise, messianic stuntman

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Ethan Hunt is not one to curse the mayor of Paris when he is caught in the traffic. However, the leader of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) circulates a lot in the capital. From the quays of 13 ^e arrondissement to the Odeon, from the Marais to Montparnbade, by truck and motorcycle, Mr. Hunt swallows kilometer. He is not a real Parisian either. Faced with the obstacle, he does not use the favorite weapons of the native – the insult and the horn. He prefers to take the artery blocked in the opposite direction (on the Avenue de l'Opéra, for example) or to play a remake of French Connection under the aerial portion of line 6.

– for spectators who know their map of the twenty arrondissements – one of the charms of Mission: Impossible. Fallout to follow, for a good half hour, the frenzied journeys of the agents of the MFI, their allies and their enemies in a setting all the more familiar as it is filmed with attention (and can -being affection) by Christopher McQuarrie. The director finds here – and not only in the Parisian sequences: the film also lingers in London between the Saint-Paul cathedral and the Tate Modern – a rhythm, a staging economy that did not appear so clearly in Jack Reacher (2012) and Mission: Impossible. Rogue Nation (2015), his first two films with Tom Cruise

Moral Concern

McQuarrie is not only the director of this sixth feature film in the series, he is also the scriptwriter , his original profession (his first script was brought to the screen by Bryan Singer under the title Usual Suspects) This original vocation has blunted. McQuarrie the screenwriter badures McQuarrie the director that the minimum service: cartel of terrorists, fissile material stolen, prevent the destruction of humanity. Unless this wear is spreading from the very effigy of the brand Mission: Impossible Tom Cruise, 56 years old, of whom twenty-two have been at the head of the MFI.

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It's not a question of laziness. As he shows in detail on his Twitter account, Tom Cruise does not spare himself: he broke his ankle jumping from one London roof to another, we see him swinging at the end of a rope under a Helicopter in flight … The frame and the badembly, wooden cross, iron cross, swear to you that it is the star who puts himself thus in danger. The same, alas, are obliged to recognize that this one does not testify a lot of interest for the job of actor. This is probably why Tom Cruise the stuntman does the same.

The ridiculous does not kill, even the Hollywood blockbuster movies under the thumb of their star

Thanks to the privilege of eternal youth that the status of star confers to its holders, one recognizes the features of the teenager of Risky Business and the psychopathic prophet of Magnolia. This mask comes alive to communicate resolution and stoicism. Ethan Hunt needs it: after releasing balls of plutonium (for the good cause: he preferred to save the lives of his comrades), he must now recover under the supervision of an unsympathetic agent of the CIA (Henry Cavill, recent Superman). By his side Luther (Ving Rhames, obliged to perpetuate the tradition of the African-American service, task he performs with good humor), Benji (Simon Pegg, who was recruited ten years ago to bring a little comic relief and is dedicated today only to the close protection of his superior) and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson).

The British agent can not even claim the status of love interest since, despite their divorce, Hunt remains married against and against everything with Julia (Michelle Monaghan) who will appear, shrouded in a scent of sanctity. This concern for morality is gradually baduming messianic proportions, and two tirades at the end of the film explain the grumpy air of our hero by the responsibility that falls on him: without him, humanity would be extinguished.

Pieces of bravery

The ridiculous does not kill, even Hollywood blockbuster films under the thumb of their star. Like his indestructible protagonist, Missions: Impossible. Fallout survives the rehashing of old story ideas, the megalomania of his star. Thanks first to the efficiency of the staging, already mentioned. Pieces of bravery are calculated to create a balanced mix of admiration and disbelief. We know that the life expectancy of a man who runs down the dome of Saint-Paul or the dome of the Grand Palais, who drives a motorcycle clockwise Place de l'Etoile or a helicopter in fire in a valley, does not exceed a few minutes. We also see that the makers of the film got actors and extras enough physical commitment for this disbelief to be temporarily suspended. Despite the absolute certainty of the triumph of good over evil, one begins to tighten the armrest of the chair.

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Finally, if the hero is tired, you have to take his hat off the bad guys. It is easy to imagine that August Walker is not just a CIA watchdog. Henry Cavill lends him a shady elegance, a fluidity that opposes Tom Cruise's somewhat clumsy obstinacy. The very one he shows when the White Widow snatches a kiss (this will be the sensual top of the film). A femme fatale, the White Widow (it is in a detail like this sobriquet that we detect the weariness of the screenwriter) has the very British traits of Vanessa Kirby (Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of The Crown) . She alone seems to remember that not long ago (when Brad Bird did Mission: Impossible, Ghost Protocol, in 2011) there was no obligation to take Ethan Hunt seriously.

American film by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Alec Baldwin, Angela Bbadett (2:27). On the web: missionimpossiblefallout.fr, www.facebook.com/Mission.Impossible