Mission Impossible: Fallout Review Historically I have avoided the last few Mission Impossible films (for the sake of my sanity, henceforth "M:I") as I've always seen them as the poor man's Bond flick (plus it starred the unpalatable Cruise, so so in most films unless he thinks outside the box like Collateral or Edge of Tomorrow). However, Fallout has been getting rave reviews, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, talk of it being "one of the greatest action movies ever made" (see the film's Wiki where that quote manages to survive Wiki's violent moderators looking for false statements) which piqued my interest. So last weekend, I binged the previous 2 films in the series - Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation which I would summarise as achingly average for the first one and much better but derivative for the second. Ghost Protocol featured some interestingly staged action - a chase in a sandstorm, a fight in a multistorey carpark with cars being shuffled around...
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