Mission: Impossible: Fallout

Super movie as are all in the MI franchise.

The 4K ULTRA HD Blu Ray disc version of this film has greatly improved sound and picture quality over the standard Blu Ray disc version when played through a 4K ULTRA HD Blu Ray player and a 4K ULTRA HD TV with HDR (High Dynamic Range). Also this is a lovely package!!!.

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Say what you like about Tom, Cruise, but his dedication to practical stunt work and filmmaking is legendary. From the motorcycle work in MI2, hanging on the side of a building in Ghost Protocol to Hanging onto the side of a plane in the opening moments of Rogue Nation, they all compare into insignificance compared to the stacked stunt work of Fallout.Add a stellar cast featuring Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, call back characters from previous movies, a musical score with a massive sense of foreboding and drama, and a plot that picks up from the end of Rogue Nation and threatens nuclear armageddon. Unlike the previous movies in this franchise, this one feels altogether more grown up and serious thanks in part to the amazing work of Harris as anti-IMF leader Solomon Lane, and Henry Cavill's physical portrayal of the double agent at the heart of the plotThere's a reason this was the best action movie of 2018 yet was a sleeper hit due to the Marvel Universe coming of age in Infinity War. Well worth your investment watching alongside Rogue Nation

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Blu-ray)Absolutely the best Mission: Impossible installment.I am a great fan of the whole Mission: Impossible series, but I can say that this one beats all the previous movies.Amazing cast, including old IMF team: Tom Cruise as Ethan Hawk, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn and Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, as well as Henry Cavill as August Walker, Sean Harris as Solomon Lane, Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley, Rebecca Ferguson as Elsa Faust and Vanessa Kirby as The White Widow.Screenplay is very good, special effects are stunning, sound effects as well as music are great. Even the car pursuit scenes are memorable (BMW e28!) and everything is spiced with a bit of humour typical for MI series (especially Hawk & Walker or IMF team scenes).Highly recommended to buy a Blu-ray version due to the clear picture, superior sound and to watch with a good sound speakers setup to have a proper feel of this movie (by a proper feel, I mean the depth of sound, especially low tones with just a moderate overall volume being enough).Simply, one of the best action/adventure movies of last decade.If my recommendation is not sufficient, it should be enough to say that Mission: Impossible - Fallout received numerous award nominations and won several awards, including a prestigious Saturn award for the best action/adventure movie.Great product!

One of my pet hates is a movie where the plot dots don’t join up, a movie that doesn’t explain to audiences properly what’s going on, the sort of movie which leaves you thinking, “Yes, but why…?”, or where you think you’ve worked out something that didn’t make sense initially, only for something else to then not make sense as a result. Fallout is one such movie. The previous two instalments of the MI franchise were complex, but when the credits rolled I was pretty sure I understood all the twists and turns. The same cannot be said for Fallout. And yet it was met with critical acclaim and huge box office takings, clearly demonstrating that a lot of people leave their brains at the ticket kiosk when they visit the cinema.Warning: spoilers ahoy!! ….. If Lark was working with the Apostles and the Apostles had already acquired the plutonium, why did they need to involve the White Widow? If the Apostles wanted to get Lane released, why did they need to involve Hunt – if they knew where Lane was going to be, why not just bust him out themselves? Did they involve the White Widow because they knew she was a CIA informant and could get Lane’s location for them if the CIA thought this was their chance to get their hands on Lark and the plutonium? If it was all a big fat ruse to frame Hunt, doesn’t that mean Lane had orchestrated it? If so, how did he do that in prison? In fact, dialogue between Lark and Lane suggests that they were in contact – again, how was that possible if Lane was banged up? Lane’s plan for Hunt to impersonate Lark would only have worked if somehow the fake Lark got bumped off, but how did he know that would happen? Who were the people who tried to kill Hunt in Paris? Why did Hunley say that the meeting Hunt had arranged in London to exchange Lane for the plutonium was a trap? Why? Why?? Why???No doubt some viewers with higher IQs than me can provide answers to some of these questions, but I shouldn’t have to ask these questions in the first place. Of course nobody wants heaps of dull exposition slowing things down, but a line or two of dialogue here and there clarifying a few things would have been much appreciated by the intellectually challenged like myself. It’s all rather disappointing from a writer/director of Christopher McQuarrie’s calibre, a man who regularly responds to people’s questions about screenwriting and movie making on Twitter. In the behind-the-scenes documentaries on the blu ray McQuarrie talks about how he was always “looking for the stunt”. I’d suggest he should have spent more time looking at the script.This is not to say that Fallout is a bad movie, it’s just too convoluted for its own good. Once all the double crossing and treachery is over-and-done-with and the movie turns into a straightforward race against time to stop the villains it steps up a gear, but by then my poor brain cells were already frazzled. There are, as you would expect, some great action sequences, though personally I don’t think Fallout is exciting as Ghost Protocol or Rogue Nation. The London footchase is probably my favourite sequence, though the Paris motorbike chase and climactic helicopter sequence are also pretty exhilarating, though some parts of the latter seem somewhat implausible. Tom Cruise has to be applauded for his stunt work, and the fact that he hadn’t flown a helicopter prior to making Fallout is incredible.The acting is generally first rate – Cruise is great and is ably supported by Pegg, Rhames, Fergusson and Baldwin, while Sean Harris is once again great as the sinister Lane. It was also nice to see Michelle Monaghan being given more than the brief cameo she had in Ghost Protocol. The only weak spot in the cast is Henry Cavill who is pretty wooden throughout, not helped by an iffy American accent. I sincerely hope the rumours of him taking over the Bond mantle from Daniel Craig are not true. I also want to mention Lorne Balfe who delivers a thumping score.Picture and sound quality on the blu ray is good but the extras could have been better. All the bonus material (apart from commentaries, obviously) are contained on a second disc which makes you think you’re going to be getting a seriously in depth “making of” documentary, but in fact it all adds up to little more than an hour. There are separate featurettes looking at how various sequences were made, a montage of deleted scenes (which contain no dialogue and are instead set to music, which is thoroughly pointless), a brief look at how Balfe layered the different components of the score, storyboards and a trailer. The featurettes are all good and clearly demonstrate Cruise’s extraordinary commitment to the project, but they could have provided even more detail.I enjoyed Fallout a lot but I also found it very frustrating. It reminded me a bit of another massively overhyped movie – Skyfall – which abandoned plot logic in favour of big action scenes, big characters and big confrontations. Fallout isn’t as bad as that, but I still think it’s a stumble after the excellent fourth and fifth instalments in the franchise, and perhaps suggests that Hunt needs to think about refusing to accept his next mission.