Mission: Impossible - Fallout

The last real movie star built a monument of adoration to himself, before which nothing can be done except to tip one’s hat. In the years when Hollywood forgot how to make blockbusters and how to shoot action movies, it was Tom Cruise who brought real amazement back to the big screen. Now that others are beginning to understand that no CGI colouring book or frantic shaky cam can replace the breathtaking dimension of physical attraction, Cruise keeps raising the bar that he set himself in the area of what someone is capable of actually doing in front of the camera for the audience’s amusement. (15/01/2019)

The day before, I saw an overstuffed digital coloring book, the new Avengers, and those endless fights didn't breathe any life, the only thing that sweated during them were the computer processors as they rendered the CGI. In Cruise's film, on the other hand, the contact fights oozed animalism, they were raw and you could feel every punch, it was such a relief to see that old-school action flicks are still being made. The charismatic Cavill is a stud, I can imagine him as the new James Bond, even with that fabulous mustache. And Cruise? I don't know how he does it, if eating umbilical cords to prolong his youth, or if he made a deal with the devil, Hubbard, or Ashtar Sheran, whatever, but to look like that at 56 and still perform those stunts, hats off. I'm 11 years younger and when I take my groceries to the 6th floor, by the third floor I'm already putting on an oxygen mask because I feel like I'm going to die :o) (06/08/2018)

The sixth movie has only one weak point, it comes after a perfect fifth movie. And so, unfortunately, it tries be better in the classic way of all Hollywood sequels “more of everything, too much of everything, with old and well-known character and this time it´s all about the saving the world, as always". The result is a much more straightforward (ok, blunt) script, which this time only serves as a link to let Tom jump on the rooftops of London for two and a half hours, drive two kilometers in the opposite direction in streets of Paris or hang hundreds of meters above the Kashmir mountains. So loved nice spy dialogs of the last part are not seen anymore, here is everything about nuclear bombs, cutting colored wires and hundredths of seconds. So much for the shortcoming. Otherwise, it is not about anything; dead adrenaline constantly (but as a matter of fact constantly) graded diverse event based on clarity, choreography and stunts. So, this time it's “only" a phenomenal big-budget real action movie and an average spy movie. Last time this symbiosis worked really well. But not this time. Even so, it is undeniably a genre movie event of the year, that´s for sure. (31/07/2018)

I felt an orgiastic enthusiasm, spoiled by moments of bitterness that a second or third viewing might or might not mitigate. Nolan himself would have been ashamed to conceive it in such a Dark Knight fashion, because he would be accused of copying himself. In particular, Balfe merely changed a few notes of the Dark Knight scores to give the dialogue tension and lend the storyline a continuously pulsating momentum. However, most of the action mega-scenes, which are almost groundbreaking in the given genre, and the brutal physical fights are not backed with music but – as the current trend dictates – only with raw sound, which gives them realism. These modern elements of deafening musical urgency and epic yet realistic action create a combination that make us pee our collective pants in joy, but it is spoiled by an overly complicated plot with repeated unmasking and changes of identities, where we manage to understand the basic storyline but keep getting lost in the individual plot twists. At least that’s what happened to me. And probably not because I’m stupid, but because of the script and its attempts to make everything dramatic at all costs, even at places where no dramatization is necessary. For this, I give it four stars, and elevate the more moderate and elegantly beautiful Rogue Nation to five. By the way, of all of Fallout’s scenes, I liked the sentimental one with the French woman cop the best. Cruise has some really beautiful women here, prettier than in many Bond movies. (02/08/2018)

Great work, but I am missing a top scene, which was Turandot in part five or Burj Khalifa in part four. Nevertheless, the action component is the best since the Dark Knight Rises, in which Nolan hung a plane on a twine. Cruise is a gambler who, with his courage, fights against time, and the fact that acting stars are dying out. He will do everything to keep the audience gasping for breath and not be afraid to take extreme risks because of it. McQuarrie is able to direct it perfectly onto the screen. It will be over when they say it's over. (02/08/2018)