Mission: Impossible– Fallout, a Heart Stomping, Popcorn Munching Thrill

-

Image result for mission impossible fallout
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan
Genre: Spy Thriller/ Action
Rating: 4/5
Mission Impossible: Fallout is bigger than all the previous impossible missions. Unlike the previous missions, which were self-contained, this one is a direct consequence of the events of Rogue Nation. In addition to the continuation of plot from Rogue Nation, the movie also contains subtle references to the previous movies in the series.

When the movie begins, we find Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Benji- Simon Pegg and Luther- Ving Rhames) making a simple black-market exchange deal. However, the mission goes awry and they end up losing the plutonium cores they were trying to secure. As a result, Hunt and his team is forced to join forces with CIA assassin August Walker (Henry Cavill) in order to recover the plutonium cores and prevent a disaster of epic proportion.

The returning director Christopher McQuarrie knows exactly what he is doing. He delivers a great action packed suspense thriller with a brisk pace. He lays down the stakes early on and lets the movie build up naturally. The build-up of the suspense is effortless, the reveal isn’t half-bad either. McQuarrie, and his team has done a brilliant job of gelling the action and the plot. The action sequences, as is the norm for Mission Impossible movies, are breath-taking. It keeps the audience at the edge of their seats for the entirety of the movie. In particular, four scenes stood out for me above all other: the Bathroom Brawl involving Cruise, Cavill and Lian Yang, the Bike Chase in Paris, the Rope Climb and the Helicopter stunt. These action scenes leaves audience gasping for breath. Yet again, Tom Cruise and the Mission Impossible team, somehow, manage to outdo themselves.

All in all, Mission Impossible: Fallout goes above and beyond all expectations. This is an all-out action thriller with no holds barred death defying action sequences. My only qualm of the movie is the use of background score, or rather the absence of it. The lack of the iconic Mission Impossible theme in the action sequences took away a certain level of drama from the experience. It left me wondering and wanting. Apart from this very personal issue, Mission Impossible: Fallout is a non-satop action packed spy thriller well worth your money and time.



Click Here for Mission Impossible: Fallout Trailer
Find me in Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/crazyyoungwriter/
Find me in Instagram @https://www.instagram.com/crazyyoungwriter/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Room of One's Own

-
Image
I enter Parijat’s Room (a Room of One's Own, Feminist Memory Project, Photo Kathmandu 2018) for the second time in three hours. I scan the room, leaving not even an inch unfolded. During the first visit when I remained in the room for just a while, I saw this amazing installation that reminded me of Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom”.  As I enter this homage to an almost mythic figure, I take all the time in the world as I leisurely go through everything at display. I feel, to some extent, the aura of the woman who had spent her days in the room. What Parijat had achieved from within this room was unprecedented. Or, at least that was what we were lead to believe as secondary school students. Nonetheless, Parijat was a legend. She had won the Madan Puraskar, the epitome of Nepali Literature for Sirish Ko Phool which was also translated to English. The translation- The Blue Mimosa was even included in the curriculum of University of Maryland, USA. This captured my imagination more ...
Read more

The Disruption

-
As I woke up I saw that everything was different. How could it be? Nothing was ever different. Everything was absolute. Everything was constant. But not today. Today was...well, simply not possible. **** Every morning I woke up at six and stayed still for five minutes while everything else remained as it was the day before. The bed was always there. Beside the bed was a stand. On it was a bottle of water and a novel. A study table stood at the corner accompanied by a brown wooden chair. Adjacent to the table was a dresser leaning against the angry red wall. Opposite the bed were the windows. The drapes on it hid me from the outside world while the sun struggled to find its way in. Then, I would reach the windows and kindly let the sun in. The room lit. It happened over and over again. As far as I could remember the same routine followed, day in and day out. It was the same forever. Almost forever! **** Until today, everything was the same. But, today was different. Different...
Read more

Narayanhiti

-
Image
Witnessing the lavishness and  the riches of the Narayanhiti I feel this hate surging within me I feel the blood boiling in my veins... When the country lived in hunger The children and the old died of cold They lived inside the high walls Feasting on the exotic dishes In their fancy glistening dishes of fine china and glass and gold and what not When people died of hot in Dhanusha And of cold in Jumla For the lack of hospitals and roads in Rukum and as Koshi flooded down south They rested in their imported cushions Controlling the temperature with the remote controls As they showed off the namesake halls And their trophy animals on the walls. Mahendra shoved down our mouth the khasa bhasa As he sent his sons and daughters further west If English was the language you so desired, If Nepali was not elite enough for you, If you always desired your sons and daughters to go to the Oxfords and the Cambridges Why the shenanigan ? Why Nepali? While people slept by the road in t...
Read more