{"id":22092,"date":"2018-08-18T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T02:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22092"},"modified":"2018-10-18T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T02:44:54","slug":"mission-impossible-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22092","title":{"rendered":"Mission Impossible: Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Christopher McQuarrie
\nWriter:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Christopher McQuarrie, Bruce Geller
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson<\/p>\n

T<\/span>om Cruise just keeps on rollin’.<\/p>\n

Who would’ve guessed that the Mission Impossible<\/em> movie franchise would still be going strong after its sixth instalment, having trucked along now for three decades<\/em>.\u00a0 The first three chapters don’t really have much of a unifying identity beyond Cruise’s casting as Ethan Hawke.\u00a0 They were directed by three wildly different directors – Brian De Palma, John Woo and J.J Abrams – and each had a\u00a0distinct tone and style.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until Brad Bird’s\u00a0Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol<\/em> and the two subsequent films directed by Christopher MacQuarrie that the franchise has settled on a particular pattern.\u00a0 These three films all have tissue thin narratives and are primarily a set up for four or five massive set pieces that are noteworthy because whatever batshit crazy action takes place, know that Cruise himself is doing all his own stunt work.\u00a0 The guy is a mad man.<\/p>\n

Mission Impossible: Fallout<\/em> takes place two years after\u00a0Rogue Nation<\/em>.\u00a0 The treacherous Solomon Lane has been brought to justice but his terrorist organisation The Syndicate have reformed as The Apostles and are after black market plutonium cores so that they can access nuclear weapons and create a new world order.\u00a0 Ethan has an opportunity to stop The Apostles when the exchange is being made for the plutonium but the mission ends in failure when his friend Luther is taken hostage and he opts to save his life instead of stopping the terrorists.\u00a0 The CIA, outraged at Ethan’s decision, send in their own CIA operative August Walker (Henry Cavill) to shadow Ethan as he attempts to bring The Apostles down.<\/p>\n

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That’s more or less the first ten minutes of the film and the time you take to read that last paragraph is about as much time you need to give\u00a0Mission Impossible: Fallout’<\/em>s plot.\u00a0 By now, everyone understands what we’re here for.<\/p>\n

If we’re to rank the\u00a0Mission Impossible<\/em> films based on the quality of set pieces, then\u00a0Fallout<\/em> is easily the franchise at its finest.\u00a0 It follows a similar template to\u00a0Rogue Nation<\/em>.\u00a0 There’s a Heist, a Car Chase, a Brawl and a Showdown that mixes everything together.\u00a0 Like its predecessors, the film is shot in a number of exotic locations around the world.\u00a0\u00a0Fallout<\/em> mostly takes place in Europe before an unlikely final stand in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

It’s the film’s final act that makes Fallout<\/em>\u00a0a stand out.\u00a0 Put simply, it’s one long, uninterrupted 45 minutes sequence of total mayhem.\u00a0 This may sound exhausting or possibly too much of a good thing but I think Christopher MacQuarrie has a real flair for constructing a coherent, engaging action set piece in the same way that the best James Cameron, John McTiernan and John Woo movies can.\u00a0 And it bears repeating: whenever you see Cruise hanging off the side of a helicopter or off the edge of a cliff, that’s the main himself actually doing all of that stuff<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard some chat online about this being the greatest action film of all time.\u00a0 I don’t know about that.\u00a0 I think time and perspective will be the judge of that.\u00a0 My first instinct is that it’s still not up on that same echelon as\u00a0Die Hard<\/em> and\u00a0Predator<\/em> but I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve had some repeat viewings.\u00a0 Regardless, it speaks to the quality of the film that the discussion is being had at all.<\/p>\n

A lot of weird stuff went down in 2018.\u00a0 In the world of action movies, who would’ve thought that the\u00a0James Bond<\/em> franchise would seem muddled and unsure about what casting direction it should take,\u00a0the\u00a0Bourne<\/em> franchise would be winding down, but\u00a0Mission Impossible<\/em> would be doing bigger and better things than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1113,1155,2750,945,1154,2749],"class_list":["post-22092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","tag-henry-cavill","tag-mission-impossible","tag-rebecca-ferguson","tag-simon-pegg","tag-tom-cruise","tag-ving-rhames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22100,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22092\/revisions\/22100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}