You can count on one hand the franchises that improve after three movies. Against all odds, Tom Cruise brought his signature franchise back from the brink of obscurity with the fourth film, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, by landing on a winning formula: death-defying stunts, witty banter, exotic locations, and stakes that manage to keep rising higher.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the franchise, refines the formula into the perfect mixture by adding Henry Cavill to the mix, and the result is perfection.
Why Mission: Impossible – Fallout Is The Best Mission: Impossible Movie
It’s challenging to pinpoint the exact formula for producing a hit action movie. Still, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, reuniting with Cruise for a third time, which was the most that the A-lister had ever worked with a single director, managed to get it right. The big secret behind Mission Impossible: Fallout is the pitch-perfect pacing. Not a single scene lingers for too long, and not a single moment is wasted; even the multiple character beats serve to fuel the emotional third act.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a relentless rollercoaster that achieves incredible heights, marked by an intense bathroom brawl, a wild chase through Paris, and a climactic helicopter duel that is all the more impressive for adhering to the laws of physics. Then again, if every moment is an action climax, no moment becomes special, and you get Crank. That’s why Cruise’s most incredible stunt in Fallout isn’t his HALO jump or leaping between buildings in a single bound; it’s making Ethan Hunt human.
Die Hard works because Bruce Willis plays John McClane like a regular Joe, and while John Wick may be the Baba Yaga, Keanu Reeves makes him struggle for every win. When Henry Cavill walks onscreen for the first time in Fallout, it’s clear that Agent August Walker is younger, bigger, and just as skilled as Ethan Hunt. Finally, we get to see Cruise’s seemingly perfect agent facing doubt that he might be second best.
He isn’t, of course, but the return of Michelle Monaghan’s Julia, Ethan’s ex-wife, represents a weak spot that, contrary to what modern action stars Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel believe, makes him seem even more heroic. It’s another small reason why Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the best in the franchise. Dead Reckoning and Final Reckoning lose that sense of emotional vulnerability and instead, Ethan Hunt is again a near-perfect demigod.
You could argue that Mission: Impossible – Fallout is also Henry Cavill’s best movie since Man of Steel, and the rest of the cast, including franchise mainstays Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ving Rhames, all get a moment to shine. Vanessa Kirby’s White Widow gets one up on the IMF and gives the series another fantastic villain. At the same time, even the usually thankless empty suit roles, who exist to yell at Ethan Hunt to play by the rules, are elevated by Alec Baldwin and Angela Bassett.
Add it all together, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a film with no weak spots. Even the franchise’s usual convoluted plot is, this time out, simple to follow, but no less effective. Here, it centers on a mystery about the identity of “John Lark,” a rogue agent turned powerbroker at its core, and a hunt for nuclear cores to prevent an atomic catastrophe.
Mission: Impossible 6 Impressed Audiences And Critics
Audiences agreed, making the film the most successful in the franchise with a stunning $791 million take at the box office, twice as much as Mission Impossible III. With the lack of decent action movies in the last five years, Fallout’s closest competition is its own sequel, Dead Reckoning, but the latter film is an example of a confusing, unwieldy plot that overpowers everything else working well in the movie.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout, streaming now on Paramount+, isn’t only the best in the franchise, it’s one of the best modern action movies, period.
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