Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, 

Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin,

Simon Pegg, Vhing Rhames

"Some Missions are Not a Choice"

It doesn't hurt to add in an action filled feature to maintain a balanced viewing habit. The Mission: Impossible franchise is always a good choice when it comes to fast paced action stunts, car chases, panoramic locales + a complex plot to keep it all together.

Fallout is the 6th film in the franchise and it continues 2 years after the capture of Solomon Lane. His organization known as the Syndicate have regrouped and now call themselves the Apostles headed by a mysterious arms dealer named John Lark. Their nefarious plan is to use three plutonium cores to simultaneously attack holy sites like the Vatican, Jerusalem and Mecca in Saudi Arabia. 

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team were first assigned to recover the plutonium cores yet fail in their mission. They are joined by August Walker (Henry Cavill) a CIA trained operative as they travel all over the world to recover the cores and prevent those disastrous attacks. What seemed like a simple recovery operation turns into time consuming hunt for the dangerous terrorists who are always a step ahead of the team. 

I read numerous articles on Tom Cruise (who does most, if not all of his own stunts) suffering a serious leg injury while filming a scene in Paris. There were indeed many well choreographed stunts in this film from running on roof tops, flying a helicopter through the snow capped mountain ranges to BMW car chases in the streets of Paris, France.

M:I- Fallout has all the right ingredients of a good film - action packed sequences, good directing, a clever and credible story line, great cinematography, neat editing and an ensemble cast who by now can play their multi-dimensional characters with their eyes closed.