"Mission: Impossible" franchise is about presenting Tom Cruise as near-invincible hero Ethan Hunt who can pull off incredible stunts and seems impervious to pain and physical damage.
This time he's fighting a new threat to the world... blah blah blah... look, a bad guy!.... agents outwitting each other... what makes one a terrorist anyway?... blah... you get the picture. Something or other is happening and there's plenty of evil henchmen to kill and backstabbers to reveal, before taking on the big boss.
Also appearing, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Bridget Moynahan, Alec Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Wes Bentley.
The most interesting character is Vanessa Kirby's White Widow - if we can talk about characters in a story so thin, instead of roughly drawn sketches which have mostly decorative function in places where Cruise is supposed to come and kick ass.
And he does, and still very well, although he must have been 54 or 55 during the filming. It's safe to assume that there's another fight left in him to continue with "M:I" for at least five to ten years, and maybe also do "Jack Reacher 3".
And why not - the first five "M:I" chapters have brought close to 2.7 billion USD from box office, and the sixth one has also started strongly indeed.
If you are able to specifically remember some of the most physics-defyingly insane moments and setpieces of the "M:I" series, then you might conclude that it would be really difficult to top the previous highlights.
It seems that the producers and authors of "Fallout" have understood that and have not even tried to set new records, instead settling for just high-quality action scenes, most of which take place during the high-speed car and bike chases, or in the air.
As expected, the whole long movie is full of cool moments that make the viewers' palms sweaty - still very unreal but not as absurdly so as, say, "Fast and Furious" or "xXx". Still, a lot of quality action for one's time and money.
And so it goes, intrinsically not different from any other "M:I" movies, the first excluded. But no need to invent a wheel if the current wheel is rolling so nicely, is there?
If I can think of any real complaints, I'd make it shorter. 147 minutes is a lot of screen time for a story signifying so little. Still, it's the most captivating action movie released in 2018 that I've seen.
This time he's fighting a new threat to the world... blah blah blah... look, a bad guy!.... agents outwitting each other... what makes one a terrorist anyway?... blah... you get the picture. Something or other is happening and there's plenty of evil henchmen to kill and backstabbers to reveal, before taking on the big boss.
Also appearing, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Bridget Moynahan, Alec Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Wes Bentley.
The most interesting character is Vanessa Kirby's White Widow - if we can talk about characters in a story so thin, instead of roughly drawn sketches which have mostly decorative function in places where Cruise is supposed to come and kick ass.
And he does, and still very well, although he must have been 54 or 55 during the filming. It's safe to assume that there's another fight left in him to continue with "M:I" for at least five to ten years, and maybe also do "Jack Reacher 3".
And why not - the first five "M:I" chapters have brought close to 2.7 billion USD from box office, and the sixth one has also started strongly indeed.
If you are able to specifically remember some of the most physics-defyingly insane moments and setpieces of the "M:I" series, then you might conclude that it would be really difficult to top the previous highlights.
It seems that the producers and authors of "Fallout" have understood that and have not even tried to set new records, instead settling for just high-quality action scenes, most of which take place during the high-speed car and bike chases, or in the air.
As expected, the whole long movie is full of cool moments that make the viewers' palms sweaty - still very unreal but not as absurdly so as, say, "Fast and Furious" or "xXx". Still, a lot of quality action for one's time and money.
And so it goes, intrinsically not different from any other "M:I" movies, the first excluded. But no need to invent a wheel if the current wheel is rolling so nicely, is there?
If I can think of any real complaints, I'd make it shorter. 147 minutes is a lot of screen time for a story signifying so little. Still, it's the most captivating action movie released in 2018 that I've seen.