Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Directed by	Christopher McQuarrie
Written by	Christopher McQuarrie
Based on	Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller
Produced by	Tom Cruise J. J. Abrams Christopher McQuarrie Jake Myers
Starring	Tom Cruise Henry Cavill Ving Rhames Simon Pegg Rebecca Ferguson Sean Harris Angela Bassett Michelle Monaghan Alec Baldwin
Cinematography	Rob Hardy
Edited by	Eddie Hamilton
Music by	Lorne Balfe
Production companies	Skydance TC Productions Bad Robot Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	July 12, 2018 (2018-07-12) (Paris) July 27, 2018 (2018-07-27) (United States)
Running time	147 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$178 million
Box office	$791.7 million

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a 2018 American spy action thriller movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie‏‎ and is the sixth movie in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan, and Alec Baldwin. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout premiered in Paris on July 12, 2018. It was released in the United States on July 27. Its sequel, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, was released in 2023.

Cast

• Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: An IMF agent and leader of a team of operatives.
• Henry Cavill as August Walker: An assassin working for Sloane in the Special Activities Division of the CIA sent to monitor Ethan and his team.
• Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: An IMF agent, a member of Hunt's team and closest friend, and a computer technician.
• 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 crosses paths with Hunt again, after being assigned to eliminate Lane in exchange for exoneration by MI6.
• Sean Harris as Solomon Lane: An anarchist mastermind who was the leader of the Syndicate, later known as the Apostles.
• Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane: The new Director of the CIA replacing Hunley, and Walker's superior
• Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis / White Widow: An arms dealer and the daughter of deceased arms dealer Max, whom Hunt arrested during the events of the first movie.
• Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade: A doctor and Ethan's ex-wife
• Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley: The former Director of the CIA who later became the new IMF Secretary.
• Wes Bentley as Erik: Julia's husband
• Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis: Alanna's brother and right-hand man.
• Ross O'Hennessy as a British agent
• Liang Yang as the John Lark decoy
• Kristoffer Joner as Nils Delbruuk: A Norwegian rogue nuclear weapons specialist.
• Alix Bénézech as the French policewoman whom Ethan saves from Alanna's and Zola's men in Paris
• Caspar Phillipson as a plutonium dealer
• Wolf Blitzer as himself: A disguise worn by Dunn.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 442 reviews are positive. The average rating is 8.4/10. The critic consensus reads, "Fast, sleek, and fun, Mission: Impossible - Fallout lives up to the "impossible" part of its name by setting yet another high mark for insane set pieces in a franchise full of them." On Metacritic, the movie received a score of 86 out of 100 based on 60 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Other websites

• Mission: Impossible – Fallout on IMDb
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout at AllMovie

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