Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Directed byChristopher McQuarrie
Written byChristopher McQuarrie
Based onMission: Impossible
by Bruce Geller
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRob Hardy
Edited byEddie Hamilton
Music byLorne Balfe
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • July 12, 2018 (2018-07-12) (Paris)
  • July 27, 2018 (2018-07-27) (United States)
Running time
147 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$178 million[4]
Box office$791.7 million[4]

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a 2018 American spy action thriller movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie‏‎ and is the sixth movie in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan, and Alec Baldwin. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout premiered in Paris on July 12, 2018. It was released in the United States on July 27. Its sequel, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, was released in 2023.

Cast

  • Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: An IMF agent and leader of a team of operatives.
  • Henry Cavill as August Walker: An assassin working for Sloane in the Special Activities Division of the CIA sent to monitor Ethan and his team.
  • Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: An IMF agent, a member of Hunt's team and closest friend, and a computer technician.
  • Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn: An IMF technical field agent and a member of Hunt's team.
  • Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust: A disavowed MI6 agent who crosses paths with Hunt again, after being assigned to eliminate Lane in exchange for exoneration by MI6.
  • Sean Harris as Solomon Lane: An anarchist mastermind who was the leader of the Syndicate, later known as the Apostles.
  • Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane: The new Director of the CIA replacing Hunley, and Walker's superior
  • Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis / White Widow: An arms dealer and the daughter of deceased arms dealer Max, whom Hunt arrested during the events of the first movie.
  • Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade: A doctor and Ethan's ex-wife
  • Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley: The former Director of the CIA who later became the new IMF Secretary.
  • Wes Bentley as Erik: Julia's husband
  • Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis: Alanna's brother and right-hand man.
  • Ross O'Hennessy as a British agent
  • Liang Yang as the John Lark decoy
  • Kristoffer Joner as Nils Delbruuk: A Norwegian rogue nuclear weapons specialist.
  • Alix Bénézech as the French policewoman whom Ethan saves from Alanna's and Zola's men in Paris
  • Caspar Phillipson as a plutonium dealer
  • Wolf Blitzer as himself: A disguise worn by Dunn.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 442 reviews are positive. The average rating is 8.4/10. The critic consensus reads, "Fast, sleek, and fun, Mission: Impossible - Fallout lives up to the "impossible" part of its name by setting yet another high mark for insane set pieces in a franchise full of them."[5] On Metacritic, the movie received a score of 86 out of 100 based on 60 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Debruge, Peter (July 12, 2018). "Film Review: Tom Cruise in 'Mission: Impossible — Fallout'". Variety. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Mission: Impossible - Fallout". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Mission: Impossible Fallout (2018)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Mission: Impossible - Fallout". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Mission: Impossible – Fallout". Metacritic. Retrieved November 18, 2023.

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