Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & thriller
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Produced by Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie
Written by Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen
Based on Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga & Henry Czerny.
Cinematography: Fraser Taggart
Edited by Eddie Hamilton
Music by Lorne Balfe
Production companies: Skydance, TC Productions
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
The plot: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.
The new Mission Impossible movie was great, first half of a 2 part story.
Pros: I did feel like your heart was pounding for all the drama that was taking place. A lot of action happened. Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell had incredible chemistry together on camera, As well as Ethan’s IMF pals Simon Pegg and Ving Rhame’s Luther & Benji respectively. The main villain was excellent and after watching this one it does get me excited to see Part 2.
Cons: A lot of the dialogue was quiet for most of the time. Rebecca Ferguson’s character IIsa could of done a lot more in my opinion and I had difficulty guessing which is which between the females in this movie when it came to facial expression.
The Casts:
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an IMF agent and leader of an operatives team
- Hayley Atwell as Grace, a burglar and Ethan’s new ally. Christopher McQuarrie described Atwell’s character as a “destructive force of nature”, while Atwell explained that her character’s loyalties are “somewhat ambiguous”.
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, an IMF computer technician, Hunt’s best friend and a member of his team
- 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 allied with Hunt’s team during Rogue Nation (2015) and Fallout (2018)
- Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis, a black-market arms dealer and broker who goes by the alias “White Widow”. Alanna is the daughter of Max, an arms dealer originally portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave from the first film.
- Esai Morales as Gabriel, a powerful terrorist and Ethan’s adversary aiming to use the Entity, an all-powerful AI system to rule the world. He was a friend and ally of Ethan prior to Ethan becoming an IMF agent.
- Pom Klementieff as Paris, a French assassin who works for Gabriel
- Mariela Garriga as Marie, a woman from Ethan and Gabriel’s past
- Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, the director of the IMF and CIA last seen in Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs, an enforcer for the Community tasked with hunting Ethan
- Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas, Briggs’ partner.
Additionally, Frederick Schmidt reprises his role as Zola Mitsopolis, Alanna’s brother, Cary Elwes appears as Denlinger, the Director of National Intelligence while Charles Parnell, Rob Delaney, Indira Varma, and Mark Gatiss appear as the heads of the Community, representing NRO, JSOC, DIA, and NSA, respectively.
I highly recommend watching this sequel to anyone who saw the previous movies.
Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe