Tom Cruise is back for a
sixth time as Ethan Hunt,
while Rebecca Ferguson
also returns as Ilsa Faust
“The title ‘Fallout’
has multiple
meanings”
– Christopher McQuarrie
has a 93% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes),
hopes are high for instalment six – out 26 July.
Entitled Mission: Impossible – Fallout,
it sees Tom Cruise returning as Impossible
Missions Force leader Ethan Hunt – an
American secret agent who, to date, has saved
the world from everything from biochemical
weapons to nuclear winter. But cheating death
on a regular basis has started to take its toll
on Hunt and in chapter six we see his past
decisions coming back to haunt him.
“The title ‘Fallout’ has multiple
meanings in the film,” elaborates
director Christopher McQuarrie.
“There is the threat of nuclear
terrorism... then there’s the notion that
what’s happened in the movie is the
end result of choices that Ethan
Hunt has made in his life.”
Back in action
Another big reason why
the M:I movies continue
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to improve with age is the series’ eclectic, ever-
rotating roster of characters. Fallout continues
this trend. In addition to Cruise’s Hunt, the
film sees the return of Simon Pegg as technical
field agent (and Ethan’s trusted friend) Benji
Dunn, Rebecca Ferguson as badass former
agent Ilsa Faust and Ving Rhames as fedora-
wearing computer hacker Luther Stickell.
This newest chapter also see the introduction
of a formidable ‘foe’ in the form of Henry
Cavill’s August Walker (pictured below). In an
interview with Empire magazine, the actor had
this to say about his moustached CIA agent:
“Walker is an essential tool of the CIA. He is
the guy sent to keep an eye on the IMF and
do what it takes to make sure the mission is
successful. If someone is in the way… he will
happily move them out of the way. Forever.”
As excited as we are to see Ethan Hunt
butting heads with Superman, the main reason
we can’t wait to choose this mission is the action.
Cruise is famous for performing his own stunts,
and incredible ones at that. In Fallout, he
outdoes even himself with some of the most
outrageous sequences ever committed to film.
For more details (some gruesome), see
right, but in the meantime, strap in
because the IMF are set to pull off
the impossible once more.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
drops into cinemas on 26 July