Behind the Scenes of Tom Cruise Movie

• Mission: Impossible — Fallout Is the Best Action Movie of the Year.

• Even six films in, Tom Cruise keeps making impossible missions look easy.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT (2018) Behind the Scenes

WATCH: Making of Mission: Impossible Fallout

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                  It may be rare for the sixth installment in a decades-old franchise to garner critical traction — but it’s not impossible. “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” the latest in the Tom Cruise action saga, had its world premiere on Wednesday night, and early reactions from critics are laudatory, praising director Christopher McQuarrie and Cruise for pulling off what some are calling the franchise’s greatest stunt yet.

The movie sees the return of Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, as he reunites with his old team and allies as they race to complete one of their most demanding missions yet. Variety.com editor Stuart Oldham took to Twitter to praise the film as well, calling it “phenomenal” and “a blistering caper with echoes of ‘The Dark Knight.'”

‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT’ REVIEW: ANOTHER HUGELY SUCCESSFUL MISSION FOR TOM CRUISE.

Mission: Impossibles. They stand out in a crowded summer marketplace because they are smart action movies: Cleverly plotted and ingeniously constructed, with sharp dialogue, surprising twists, and inventive set pieces that flow effortlessly and relentlessly from one to the next. The last two Missions have been directed by their writer, Christopher McQuarrie, and they feel like the work of a filmmaker with a screenwriting background. They are not just vapid excuses for explosions and gunplay; they’re actual stories with real characters, and the action builds organically from their struggles. If you turn your brain off in one of McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible movies, you’ll miss some of the best stuff.

His latest is called Mission: Impossible – Fallout, although Mission: Suicide would have worked too given how absurdly dangerous the stunts look and how high the stakes are this time for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Mission Force.

They’re on the trail of a trio of nuclear weapons stolen by a group of evil spies known as “The Apostles.” They want to tear down society in order to build a new, better world.

Hunt and his IMF backup Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) will need to locate the warheads, along with the Apostles mysterious leader John Lark, all while being shadowed by a CIA agent (Henry Cavill) who distrusts Hunt and thinks the IMF’s unorthodox methods and old-fashioned morality represent the real threat to world peace.

There is something charmingly retro about Ethan Hunt and his refusal to sacrifice even one innocent life to preserve millions of others – as is the earnestness with which McQuarrie and Cruise put forward their message about saving the world without sacrificing your principles.

A movie based on a 50-year-old TV show is the perfect delivery vehicle for that sort of message, and Cruise, who’s been making Mission: Impossible movies for 20 years, adapting each one to the tastes of their time without adjusting Hunt’s values even an iota, is its perfect messenger.

It features three different threads of parallel action, including Tom Cruise dangling from a helicopter’s skids hundreds of feet off the ground and piloting a chopper in a breathless chase. The fate of the entire world is at stake, along with the lives of several crucial characters we care dearly about. 

From top to bottom, it is spectacular. And that’s not even the part of Fallout where Tom Cruise actually jumps off a building, breaking his ankle in the process. (That shot’s in the movie, as is the next shot, where Cruise drags his broken body onto the roof and clears camera before collapsing so he wouldn’t have to do another take on one leg.)