Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)

Biboy and Barbara kindly invited me to join them to watch Tom Cruise's latest movie, Mission Impossible: Fallout. I doubted that he would do another Mission Impossible movie... and yet he did (again!). This latest movie is the sixth film in the franchise and it doesn't look like Tom Cruise won't retire the Ethan Hunt persona just yet.

Fallout, though, felt like it was finishing up a few storylines. First, it provided the closing chapter to Ethan's marriage with Julia (the medical doctor who was last seen to be thriving in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol); she had moved on and gotten married with a fellow medical doctor. Second, it (literally) ended Alan Hunley's (Alec Baldwin) storyline as IMF Secretary. He was the second IMF Secretary that was killed, as far as I know. And where in the world was William Brandt? I would just like to point out that Jeremy Renner, who played Brandt, wasn't in this movie; he wasn't in Avengers: Infinity War either.

But then, Fallout also continued on to show us what happened to the crime group that Hunt and his team were able to incapacitate in Rogue Nation: "The Syndicate". Its leader, Solomon Lane, previously captured by Hunt's team, transformed into "The Apostles", a group which intended to contaminate the water supply of the world's most populous areas. The Apostles wanted to get Lane back so he could finish what he had started. It seemed to me that Lane wasn't the leader of the group after all; he was taking orders, probably, from a guy named August Walker/ John Lark, whose philosophy sounded awfully similar to that of Thanos.

After thrilling chase scenes on land, across rooftops, in the water, and in the sky, the audiences were treated with some of the most breath-taking snowy montane views in what the movie was claiming to be part of Kashmir. 

I liked the movie, but I just have to say that Tom Cruise is getting on with years. I read that he got injured on set while doing his own stunts. Maybe it's time for his Ethan Hunt to get promoted within the IMF and to again allow someone younger (remember his protégée in Mission Impossible III?) to handle the physical challenges. 

Will Ethan Hunt be back for yet another Mission Impossible? I guess we'll find out.

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