MI6:Fallout

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Impossible covert operations - that's what the IMF does. Tom Cruise returns as point man Ethan Hunt in what may be - not only the best of the Mission: Impossible franchise, but the best action movie of all.
Good intentions can be a fatal flaw. IMF agent Ethan Hunt is tasked to intercept three stolen plutonium cores but fails to recover them when he is forced to make a split-second decision between retrieving the cores or saving his best friend, Luther.
Cruise, 56, holds nothing back jumping from planes, brawling in bathrooms with much larger enemies and engaging in a death-defying chase on a motorcycle in Tom-Cruise fashion. If you think he's grasping at straws trying to extend his Hollywood namesake driven by his ego, think again. Cruise shines brightly, once again transforming into the gritty Ethan Hunt who is doggedly pursuing the criminal group called organization The Syndicate (introduced in Rogue Nation). As CIA Agent August Walker joins the IMF team, Ethan and his fellow scouts must find the plutonium before it's too late.
"Mission: Impossible - Fallout is an unrelentingly consistent action movie, with not a single sequence wasted before the next big stunt, " says Andrew Whalen, film reviewer for Newsweek. "Mission: Impossible is as laser-focused as an action movie can get."
Yes, MI:6 is perfect. Maybe too perfect. The plot gets a bit chewy, overemphasizing Lane's bad-guy prowess, inflated with punchy one-liners like, "Your mission, should you choose to accept it. I wonder… did you ever choose not to?” 
Sean Harris oversells Lane's indifferent, bourgeois bad-guy status, in my opinion, and, instead of being a maniacal sociopathic recurring antagonist, he's more like a school bully. The writing is tastefully done, but if you don't have a strong antagonist, your film will suffer. I didn't (and still don't) think MI: Rogue Nation had a great cast and, unfortunately, Lane's presence in Fallout weighs the latest Mission: Impossible down. Luckily, the intensity of the action drives the plot forward as Hunt continues his ensemble of gasp-worthy stunts, captured by the camera at equally dazzling angles.

It's prime-vintage Cruise in a role practically synonymous with his name. Since 1996, the Mission: Impossible series has been an enthralling adventure, riddled with OMG moments, immediately becoming a hit. Fallout is no exception. It's big, it's loud, it's spectacular! Put simply, it's a must-see. 

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