The second full trailer for Mission: Impossible – Fallout has been released. The sixth film in the franchise, written and directed by returning Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation director Christopher McQuarrie, finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF team seemingly paying for a lifetime of tough choices. Hopefully, given Cruise’s age and declining box office appeal, this will be the finale or at least a transition for the franchise, which-aside from the regrettable second installment, has been one of the longest-running, best franchises in all of movies. Cruise has been playing Ethan Hunt now for 22 years…which should make all of us feel extremely old (including Cruise).
Mission: Impossible – Fallout finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the cast.
The Mission: Impossible franchise launched in 1966 with the original CBS television series, which ran for seven seasons and 171 episodes. Mission: Impossible returned in 1988 with a rebooted series on ABC. It failed to find an audience, however, and was canceled after two seasons. It was nearly a decade later that the Tom Cruise-led Mission: Impossible feature film would turn the small screen spy series into a hugely-successful cinematic franchise.
Christopher McQuarrie, who previously helmed Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, is once again writing and directing the Paramount Pictures sequel, which opens in theaters on July 27, 2018.
Bloody hell. They just keep getting better. And Freddy Mercury!! wait, no.
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I love how trailers now have little mini-trailers at the beginning.
The first trailer was so much better, because it got into the character. This trailer makes it look like I’ve already seen this movie. About a thousand times before. I’m not seeing anything here to distinguish this film from a generic spy thriller. I really hope this is Ethan’s last outing, because this movie really needs a hook. At least, I need a hook. I won’t speak for the rest of the world.
I wish McQuarrie were not directing. He is a fine director, don’t get me wrong, and I am not criticizing the last one, but one of the strengths of this franchise has always been the perpetual infusion of new blood. I know you hate the second one, but John Woo is the one who roped me into the series. Because as I’ve said, the first one underwhelmed me. Though I recently rewatched it, for the first time since it was in theaters, and I like it now for some reason. A lot. Which means this series is now officially up there in my head with Toy Story and Bourne (the real Bourne), when it comes to quality control. Go figure.
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