Ethan Hunt is back and this time he has to face the biggest mission yet. Impossible, right? It would not be a Tom Cruise movie if he would not top every ones expectations. However, maybe this time he went too far.
Fallout picks up where Rogue Nation left the audience. Two years after capturing Solomon Lane, Hunt and his team has to stop the Syndicate once more, but only now they call themselves the Apostles and want to get their hands on three nuclear bombs for their latest client, John Lark. Of course Ethan accepts this mission and travels with his team, Luther and new-in-the-field Benji, to Berlin where they should buy the bombs. However, nothing goes to plan and Ethan has to decide between his team’s life or the life of thousands. To put a life of a single person above a dozens more, that is what makes Hunt so special to the IMF.
The mission continues in Paris where Ethan is joined by August Walker, a CIA assassin who should not only help Ethan but watch his steps. After Ethan learns he has to free Solomon Lane in order to get the bombs, his cover is in jeopardy. What follows is the main reason why I watch this franchise, a stunt filled chase through Paris.
The story changes after the true identity of Lark is revealed and when we see Ethan’s love of his life, Julia again.
There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace. The end you’ve always feared is coming. It’s coming, and the blood will be on your hands.
You do not go to see Mission Impossible for the story; you want to see the action scenes that are way too far from reality as this is what made this franchise famous. Nevertheless, this time Cruise and his team went a bit too far. For like 10 minutes you believed them that Rome, Jerusalem, and Mekka are gone forever because they could not get the bombs. In the light of current events and the possibility for this being real, this was not something I enjoyed to see.
Then there was a bit of a love story within this movie that gives the audience a bit of conclusion. We know that Ethan had a wife, Julia, and both of them never could let go of one another. In the end of Fallout, we see Julia being in the center were two bombs should detonate. It is just a small appearance of her, but has a big impact on future movies, of which I am certain of that there will be. Julia may still have feelings for Ethan, but she’s moved on, so now Ethan can move on as well. It comes in handy that Isla—the MI6 agent from Rogue Nation—is around as well. This twist comes so fast you have not processed it and credits start to roll.
Before the movie even got his first trailer out, we heard about the silent but albeit elephant in the room, Cavill’s moustache gate. Cavill was called in for reshoots for Justice League while he was in the middle of shooting Fallout. The one role required a moustache, the other did not. This expensive fight between the two productions studios could have been easily avoid if the Fallout people would have let Cavill shave, because this little moustache could have been easily glued to him before every scene.
So if you are in the mood for an action-packed movie, this is definitely one to watch. Even if the story is a bit chaotic (oh you are the big bad guy, oh no now you), Cavill from saviour (I am thinking about Superman) to assassin, and Ethan seems to have a God complex (only he is able to save the world), the movie is worth its existence and guarantees you a good time.
