Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)

I wrote before that I prefer the "MI" series to "Bond", one of the main reasons being that it doesn't take itself so serious as it happens in the 007 universe = typically you have a decent story, an ok action, and a comic relief factor that's there when's needed. It doesn't try to pass as a pretentious drama. It just comfortably sits in the action movies list and it does it really well. Or well... since the subject now is "MI6: Fallout" (no pun intended), it used to do it well...

Unfortunately the last part of the serious does exactly what I was criticizing above. It tries to be more "Bond" than before. First of all, it looks to me as the MI which si by far the most centered on the main character = Ethan Hunt, considering that other defining part of the series was "the team" and not just Tom Cruise as a super-spy. Don't get me wrong, we still have "the team", but much more of team leader on the screen. Besides that we have a story that being slightly complicated wants to pose as intelligent but it doesn't work. Because all the twists (not so many) are at least predictable, if not really under your own eyes. It's very annoying that the first consistent part of the movie where it's clear that a character in the good guys team is actually playing for the other side but nobody sees it, and even more he's obviously the guy searched by everybody but who nobody knows who really is. Maybe I should've written spoilers before saying that, but honestly... I really don't know who's not gonna get it...

Something good - the action scenes are indeed impressive, and it's pretty hard to achieve that anymore. It reminded be a bit of "Cliffhanger" (helicopters in the mountains). Simon Pegg is still in the team - so the comic relief is still there and works very well. The story itself is not so bad, but also not at the level where the previous two got. Tom Cruise runs marathons with a speed that would make Usain Bolt think if it wouldn't have worked doing that instead sprints... well, I'm not sure if this is something good. Anyway, enjoyable, but unfortunately way too predictable, which gets it way far from the critics' praise of "best action movie of the year". We still have some left of 2018, so I can hope to something with a more clever story...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5