--- title: ‘Mission: Impossible—Fallout’ May Be Best Since the First description: Before Internet cat videos, before flip phones, before Beyoncé could talk—let alone sing—there was Tom Cruise. canonical: https://time.com/5349500/mission-impossible-fallout/ author: Stephanie Zacharek article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-26T11:12:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T20:57:41.750Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: ‘Mission: Impossible—Fallout’ May Be the Best Since the Original og:description: Even people who don’t care for Cruise often have a weakness for the Mission: Impossible movies, and that’s as it should be. og:url: https://time.com/5349500/mission-impossible-fallout/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt041033171efd8762/6989363fcf40a85993c4cd15/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-fallout.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: tom-cruise-mission-impossible-fallout og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ‘Mission: Impossible—Fallout’ May Be the Best Since the Original twitter:description: Even people who don’t care for Cruise often have a weakness for the Mission: Impossible movies, and that’s as it should be. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt041033171efd8762/6989363fcf40a85993c4cd15/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-fallout.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Mission: Impossible—Fallout_ May Be the Best Since the Original > Sponsored content. 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Yet even people who don’t care for Cruise often have a weakness for the _Mission: Impossible_ movies, and that’s as it should be. Their outlandish plots and over-the-cliff stunts are the most suitable delivery systems for his energy and undimmable wattage: he just makes sense in them. _Mission: Impossible—Fallout_ may be the best _Mission: Impossible_ movie since the first, made in the dawn of the cat-Internet age, 1996, by Brian De Palma. Or perhaps it’s just the one with the mostest: even by the franchise’s extravagant standards, _Fallout_ throws off Hope-diamond levels of grandeur. If your recollection of the last entry in the series, the 2015 _Rogue Nation_, self-destructed five seconds after viewing, don’t worry. All you need to know about this one is that Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and friends–played once again by the eminently appealing Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg, both of whom make Cruise seem more human just by proximity–need to foil the plot of MI6 operative turned anarchist Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), who hopes to mend the world by sowing chaos. Now there’s some logic for you. The plot involves the usual rubber face masks, as well as plenty of double- and triple-crossing and the stealing of plutonium. Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust, introduced in _Rogue Nation_, returns: she was a foxy-smart presence in that movie, as she is here. One of _Fallout_‘s standouts is a fabulously choreographed fight sequence in a mirrored, all-white Parisian men’s room involving, among others, Hunt and a CIA tagalong played by the almost obnoxiously elegant Henry Cavill. Their grunts, their high kicks, their showy, arm-swinging punches become design elements. The results are horrible and beautiful at once. They also represent the great care writer-director Christopher McQuarrie and editor Eddie Hamilton have taken with every action scene here: they’re all constructed with brain-surgery precision, not just fed through the usual fast-cutting wood chipper. That means you can follow the movement of a car, a motorcycle, a helicopter or a human body for long, languorous stretches, which should be the point of an action scene, after all. It’s typical for Cruise to run a lot in the _Mission: Impossible_ pictures, and this one doesn’t disappoint. He runs–and runs and runs and runs. No one else runs like this. Cruise is an unhinged stickman, outrunning the devil, the aging process, time itself. He will outrun us all. 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