‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’: What the Critics Are Saying

Author: Omar Sanchez / Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The reviews for Mission Impossible: Fallout are in.

The sixth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise sees Tom Cruise reprise his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt as he travels across Paris and London chasing down — and being chased by — a terrorist organization called The Syndicate.

The film brings back director Christopher McQuarrie for his second Mission: Impossible outing after the box-office and critical success of 2015’s Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation. Fallout also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill and Vanessa Kirby.

So far, critics are saying the mission is a success. While The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy found the film’s plot to be “indecipherable,” he writes that the action alone made the film a “fast-moving spectacle” that unfolds “in an extraordinary fashion.”

“Probably never has Paris availed itself so extensively as the setting for such spectacular action, which encompasses not one but two breathless motorized chases, one involving cars and a second that has a helmet-free Cruise zooming through congested streets and, in the most amazing interlude, speeding against traffic in the busy circle around the Arc de Triomphe,” McCarthey writes. “In scenes like this, any sense of dramatic necessity or real purpose is obliterated by the sheer sensation of it, which is significantly enhanced in the Imax format. Lorne Balfe’s sharp re-orchestrations of Lalo Schifrin’s original themes nicely further the cause throughout.”

Entertainment Weekly’s Chris Nashawaty views Mission: Impossible — Fallout as proof that the franchise is enduring, like its seemingly ageless lead star.

But unlike McCarthy, Nashawaty praises the film’s plot, saying it is “as narratively ambitious and clever as…

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