‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’: Critics rave about sixth film in franchise

CRITICS are raving about the sixth Mission: Impossible movie which is due out on August 2. Here’s what they’ve said about the Tom Cruise film.

THE new Mission: Impossible movie is being hailed as one of the best action movies ever made.

The first reviews for Mission: Impossible — Fallout have been released and the majority of critics are in agreement that the sixth film in the franchise, which is due out on August 2, is the best one yet.

Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson are back again and this time they’re joined by Henry Cavill and Angela Bassett as the IMF team race against time after a mission goes wrong.

Here’s what critics have said about the film.

David Ehrlich from IndieWire:

“It doesn’t take long to recognise that Mission: Impossible — Fallout is one of the best action movies ever made … Not since Fury Road have such viscerally practical effects been put to better use by such deliriously impractical people.”

Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter:

“You get the feeling that Cruise and his frequent partner in crime (Christopher) McQuarrie made a pact to go for broke here. Especially in light of his serious injury suffered in jumping a good distance from one London building to another (it does look awfully precarious when seen onscreen), it wouldn’t be a total surprise if Cruise decided to make this outing as Ethan Hunt his last. If he does, he’d certainly be signing off on a very good note.”

Henry Cavill plays a rival agent. Picture: Paramount

Chris Nashawaty from Entertainment Weekly:

“At this point in Hollywood’s franchise-fatigue cycle, it’s rare to see a sequel (never mind a fifth one) one-upping itself. Fallout is a unique exception that defies our seen-it-all cynicism. It’s the kind of pure, straight-no-chaser pop fun that not only keeps taking your breath away over and over again, it restores your occasionally shaky faith in summer blockbusters.”

Peter Debruge from Variety:

“Mission: Impossible — Fallout isn’t just another stunt-driven save-the-world bonanza. Of course, it is that, offering a whirlwind tour of Paris, London and Kashmir this time around, but writer-director Christopher McQuarrie — on board for more, after making slick work of the previous movie, Rogue Nation — smartly ties this sixth instalment back into what has come before. This time, it really is personal.”

Scott Mendelson from Forbes:

“Mission: Impossible Fallout has the relentless pacing of Mad Max: Fury Road, an occasional hair-trigger intensity (and IMAX-enhanced scale) that will remind you of The Dark Knight and plenty of the unique flavouring that has turned this franchise from ‘Tom Cruise: Generic Action Man’ into the most exciting, inventive and just-plain greatest action franchise around.”

The stunts are next level. Picture: Paramount

Nick Schager from The Daily Beast:

“The director’s stunning wide-screen visuals (even more impressive in IMAX, whose outsized format is repeatedly exploited) enhance the magnificence of his scripting and staging, in which initially straightforward scenarios become complicated by a raft of unforeseen events, until the tension is almost too much to bear. In terms of providing a pure adrenalised rush, almost no contemporaries are in its league.”

Richard Lawson from Vanity Fair:

“In Fallout, Cruise — whose devotion to stunt work is as crucial to these films as anything else — jumps out of a high-altitude plane and hangs from a helicopter as it whips over the mountains of Kashmir, daring us to consider that his work on these films might only be finished when one of them actually kills him. (This one nearly did.) Cruise’s crazy gusto dovetails neatly with Ethan Hunt’s, and Fallout runs swiftly, as the franchise has, on those twin engines of intensity.”

Mission: Impossible — Fallout hits cinemas on August 2

Originally published as ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’: Critics rave about sixth film in franchise