How often do we get to watch films that shine being a spectacle and at the same time, staging a story that’s absolutely gutsy and tricky? Don’t see one? Fallout, the latest installment of MI is a solid encounter that rings all the bells within the prior said reach.
With each sequel, the stakes are becoming farther in scope than the prior field work. That’s exactly how Fallout tends to be ambitious. Even Rogue Nation did not smash the Ghost Protocol outta park, it still had its standing. Tom Cruise as the embodiment of Ethan Hunt is literally flawless. Yes, even after 22 years ever since he’d masked the code identity of Ethan Hunt, the mission has always been all the same. Do the impossible! And, this time, once again, he shatters the expectations with his larger-than-life stunt expertise. It’s no exaggeration to word that he’s given his fullest in this mission.
Enough of Cruise’s crush, let’s get back our ass to the rest of the cast. Henry Cavil’s moustache is all worth it just as himself. If you’d known it, here is the gist. Henry was not able to do remove his moustache as per the agreement with Paramount due to which Joss Whedon’s re-shoots on Justice League miserably failed. The very first scene of JL is itself the proof. But, gosh, he’s on fire here. He drops everyone’s jaws for sure. Other members of the league are equally fine too. Amongst all, Simon Pegg deserves a special notation. He’s funny. So, his one-liners are.
Dodging bullets? Death defying stunts? Is there anything anew? What’s indeed surprising is that even though, nothing had really changed; every sequence does seem to be engaging. It’s the same old story with some cliched twists. Still, this movie brings all its vigor and tenacity with it to wrap it all in a stealth mode. The twists are on time; letting it look like the perfect chords played on the right time. And, for most of the times, they’re convincing too. If not, the screenplay progresses like a rapid wildfire to reinstate the balance of the engrossment so that, you shall forget what had happened in the compromising scene.
Another noteworthy fact is that Fallout is a true blast to the past. This mission takes us on a roller-coaster ride filled with elements of nostalgia and remembrance. Henceforth, assuring that the story has also got enough substance and doesn’t entirely rely on its hyper-linked style of narration.
The film widely enjoys Lorne Balfe’s version of the main theme music and also other situational scores. It can be even uttered that Fallout relishes as the best background score of all MI films to date.
The only thing that some may try to dislike is how the leads form the layout of the story. The ‘leads’ as in Interpol’s dictionary just come out of nowhere in the middle as so called ‘source’ and the script bends to take up a new way from there on. Let’s consider the role of Vanessa Kirby. Her role of White Widow gets lost amidst other confusions and commoners just don’t care about it as they believe that Ethan’s core objective is only about the two remaining cores and not any other. But, that’s not persuasive at all.
Other than that, if you’d got to love the prequels, there’s no stopping by here. Fallout is so insanely terrific that you just might have to hold off your breath for more than once. Christopher McQuarrie and team have proved it again.
The Mission is impossible only when IMF says it’s Impossible!
Fallout is a Holy Writ that proves this franchise is gonna be the 21st century Bond series, the one to rule them all.
Buy it or not. There’s gonna be many James Bonds to come. But, there’s gonna be only one Ethan Hunt. Once and for all.