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Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
In theaters
Put this in the foreground – the series Mission: Impossible is the largest of the franchises of action. There is no better. No. There is no series of action that approximates moments of quality and maintenance of your breathing. The series Bond had serious strengths, such as Skyfall and Casino Royale and From Russia with Love and GoldenEye. But for each Goldfinger there is a Moonraker a Die Another Day . Most other franchises are one or two great movies with decreasing returns. The only action franchises that are getting closer are maybe the series Fast and Furious but they are limited to cars that go very fast and to physics that does not work well and we have to ignore the first three or four, and the original trilogy Bourne
Of course, when the two weakest films in your franchise were made by Brian De Palma and John Woo and written by Robert Towne, the bar was placed very high. Very high indeed.
And what is the quality Mission: Impossible – Fallout ? Let me tell you a story. Shortly after the beginning of the film, the fire alarm in the theater begins to ring. Not a constant ring, just a ring every few seconds. Say a ring every five seconds. A theater employee enters ( ring ) and says "do not worry about the fire alarm ( ring ), it is a first-stage alarm ([19659006]). If we go to ( ring ) step two us (19459109)] we will evacuate the theater. "And I think to myself," self, is ( ring ) a test of the quality ( ring ) of this film. Does anybody (19459109) still ring ) be in the theater if ( ring ) this ringing continues ( rings ) for twenty minutes or ( ] sounds ) will the film beat (] ring ) this annoying sound? "So we're sitting there, a theater almost filled in. Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames are doing their impossible mission, the messages are self-destructing, Henry Cavill is huge, Alec Baldwin is charming, Angela Bassett is Angela Bassett, and all the time sounds I do not know how long it has happened, every few seconds sound It could have been twenty minutes, it would have could be thirty, it was probably longer. Ring On screen, Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill are preparing for a HALO jump in a thunderstorm. Ring. They jump from the plane into the clouds. Ring . "Do they make a real jump from HALO () Jesus on a ring ) cracker. "The lightning strikes our heroes () the score falls from the film, the sound comes out of the film, leaving only a wind blown tufts and more ring . You could see the entire audience physically react to the experience.
And how many people stayed during the ringing of the first fire alarm? I saw two, maybe three to leave. An almost complete theater and almost everyone sits across the boring ring for twenty, thirty minutes. That's how it's good Fallout .
I could talk again and again about Rob Hardy's amazing cinematography, the beauty of his work, the way he talks about the work of John Alcott and Roger Deakins. Or how Christopher McQuarrie became one of the leading artistic collaborators of Tom Cruise – writer and director of two Mission: Impossibles and the first Jack Reacher author of Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy, and Valkyrie – and I could go on and on about how he became Keef at Mr. Cruise's Mick, pushing him and pulling him to his limits. I could go on and on about how Mission: Impossible perfected the formula of the action, each beat of the story serving the next organically. I could sing the praises of the support cast, how great Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson are. I could go on and on about how Sean Harris created a villain who is close to competing with Philip Seymour Hoffman's Owen Davian as the big villain of the series. And I could go on and on about how Tom Cruise, at age 55, is the star of action in Hollywood, with his HALO jumps and helicopter flying and building jumps and three Oscar nominations, how he is the Mission: Impossible greatest asset of the series.
I could go on and on about it all over again. But I will not do it. How big is Fallout ? An almost complete theater and almost everyone sits through a boring stage fire alarm for twenty, thirty minutes.
I'm going to talk about Wade Eastwood. And who is Wade Eastwood, you ask avoiding all the work you are supposed to do, but rather read this too long thing about a new movie Mission: Impossible . Wade Eastwood is the stunt coordinator on Fallout . It's Wade Eastwood and his team that allowed Tom Cruise to become Tom Cruise at an age when some men get hurt in the morning by putting on socks. When an argument is made for an Oscar category recognizing cascade work, Wade Eastwood's work is usually high. Tom Cruise is able to fly the helicopters and physically stand on a plane and jump between buildings to climb freely and run very fast. Wade Eastwood and his team are the ones who make sure everyone is safe while Tom Cruise does his Tom Cruise stuff.
So, yes. Is Fallout worth it? Yes yes that's it. Each image of Fallout is close to perfection. Twenty-two years after the first Mission: Impossible and six films and I can not tell you which of the films is the best. My personal favorite is a tie, III and Ghost Protocol but, damn if Fallout does not grow its way in. The level of quality alone on the last four films will be legendary when our children's children will watch the movies in the early days of the twenty-first century.
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