- Location: Cinemark Century Point Ruston
- Christopher McQuarrie's Mission Impossible: Fallout, hereafter referred to as "the one with Henry Cavill and a helicopter fight," otherwise feels painfully similar to the director's previous entry in the series. All of the major players (Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin) are back, and Sean Harris even returns to play the same villain as last time. The only significant new cast members are Cavill as a gruff mustachioed C.I.A. agent named Walker, Angela Bassett as his manipulative boss, and Vanessa Kirby as an assassin called White Widow. Michelle Monaghan also rematerializes as the ex-wife who really should have bowed out of these storylines a few films ago.
- As expected, the movie deploys the usual amount of pre-recorded messages, masked subterfuge, repetitive theme music, and Tom Cruise doing his own stunts. Surprisingly, the film's decent-yet-overhyped motorcycle chase scene through the narrow streets of Paris proves vastly inferior to the aforementioned helicopter fight, with lovely New Zealand landscapes standing in for Kashmir as Cruise tries to board a helicopter from the outside. As is often the case, Alec Baldwin steals every scene he's in ("Good God, Ethan!" earned a laugh from me), although Cavill's character comes in a close second as a man who somehow outruns people by walking away from them (and his name is Walker, no less!). The rest of the film is forgettable in the way that many action movies are, prompting me to wonder if anybody has assembled a "greatest hits" collection of effective action scenes from the Mission: Impossible movies. That would be both shorter and more enjoyable than any of the individual films.
- Also starring Wolf Blitzer as Wolf Blitzer.
