RageLite review - Mission: Impossible Fallout

With Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation, I finally became a fan of the Mission: Impossible series, it has a good story-telling engine, allowing for some interesting plot-lines, the main cast are generally well developed and the action is among the best film can offer, in part due to Tom Cruise putting his life on the line, doing his various stunts personally.

Mission Impossible Fallout, the 6^th entry in the series keeps things going strong with a $791m box office haul on a $178m budget and, even more impressively a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating. There was a mishap on set where Cruise broke his leg during a stunt, all the crew had to be paid during his recovery time, upping the budget. He actually came back to set a week early, he’s either deeply committed or crazy, probably both.

Sequel Month - Mini Review - Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

It’s June, and you know what that means!

SEQUEL MONTH!

And FYI, I had this planned since before the Nostalgia critic announced his sequel month. But there’s a difference in that I’m only spotlighting sequels to recent high profile movies and games, sequels that came out from 2015 onwards. We’ll go through the good, the bad and the awful and let’s start with Mission Impossible.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation came out in July 2015 (we’ll be doing these in chronological order) to a great financial performance and favourable reviews. My reviews of the previous entries came under Cruise Month, 1 was ok, 2 was terrible and 3 and 4 were marked improvements, will the 5^th instalment carry on this escalation of quality? Let’s take a look