Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) by Matthewakalusi — 12 Aug 2018

It's been 22 years since the first Mission Impossible movie was released.Six installments later and this franchise is showing no signs of fatigue.If anything this has to be described as the best installment yet.

The sub-title; Fallout is actually a description of events in this installment which make it a sequel to the previous one; Rogue Nation.Usually sequels follow the first movie in what may turn out to be a trilogy or become a franchise but this sequel is different from what usually obtains because it happens between installment 5 and 6.

The plot it turns out is a fallout of the events from Rouge Nation and as a result sees the return of two key characters introduced in that installment; Rebecca Ferguson as a British Officer who joined up with franchise lead, Tom Cruise to take on a common threat and Sean Harris, the very bad villain who (still) represents that threat.

This movie has two clever instances of misdirection using disguises, one among the opening scenes which precede the title credits and the other in one of the third act scenes leading up to the enthralling conclusion.

There are spectacular action sequences involving sky diving into Paris, truck, car and motorbike chases through its streets, as well as a Helicopter chase over the mountains of Kashmir, all as Cruise and his team seek to recover some stolen Plutonium before it is used to cause nuclear devastation with global implications.

All these make for an excellent movie.