Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 27, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
86
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Universal acclaim based on 60 Critic Reviews
Positive:
58
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2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
CineVueChristopher MachellJul 27, 2018
Not only is Fallout the best Mission: Impossible film by a considerable margin, it is also undoubtedly the best action film of the year. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 25, 2018
Cruise and McQuarrie have made the best film in the franchise’s history and the most enjoyable and exciting action movie in several years. Read full review
100
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJul 25, 2018
It’s got that finely-tuned, perfect blend of every technical element that it takes to make a great action film, all in service of a fantastic script and anchored by great action performances to not just work within the genre but to transcend it. This is one of the best movies of the year. Read full review
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJul 25, 2018
Unlike many of his action-cinema contemporaries, McQuarrie excels at creating clear lines of sight for his set pieces, and cutting them together to ensure maximum tension. Read full review
100
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJul 25, 2018
Writer and director Christopher McQuarrie borrows just the right amount of familiar spy tropes in his second “M:I” outing, and his film, while intelligent and witty, never becomes too self-serious or chatty. It’s the best night out at the movies so far this summer. Read full review
100
Time OutDan JolinJul 18, 2018
McQuarrie also builds on the last film’s self-aware level of wit and, most importantly, its set-piece-crafting sophistication. No action sequence is allowed to peter out, or be chopped to ribbons in the edit, or lean on the crutch of CG augmentation. Read full review
100
EmpireHelen O'HaraJul 13, 2018
A combination of thrilling stunts, insane daring and clever writing make this a stunning piece of action cinema. Just be sure to take your heart meds first, and hold on tight. Read full review
100
Total FilmJamie GrahamJul 12, 2018
McQuarrie brings grace and grit, and Cruise brings it, period. This quick-witted, fleet-footed franchise shows no sign of flagging. Read full review
100
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 12, 2018
He’s only Tom Cruise because nobody else is willing to be — or maybe he’s only Tom Cruise so that nobody else has to be. Either way, Fallout is the film he’s always promised us, and it was totally worth the wait. Read full review
100
The TelegraphTim RobeyJul 12, 2018
OK, McQuarrie may not have De Palma’s sweat-drop precision, John Woo’s craziness or the impish wit of Brad Bird, but his mastery of logistics here is easily sufficient to make it the blockbuster of the summer. Read full review
100
UproxxMike RyanJul 12, 2018
Simply put, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the best action movie you will see this year. You’ll probably leave the theater overcome with an urge to go jumping from building to building. Read full review
100
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJul 12, 2018
It’s the kind of pure, straight-no-chaser pop fun that not only keeps taking your breath away over and over again, it restores your occasionally shaky faith in summer blockbusters. Read full review
91
UproxxVince ManciniAug 2, 2018
Mission Impossible: Fallout is not a triumph of literal realism, orderly plotting, or restraint, but it’s proof that thoughtful execution, comedic timing, and a true moral center count for much more. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jul 25, 2018
Moving like the lit fuse that blazes brilliantly across the opening credits of both the original Mission: Impossible television series and its first big-screen adaptation, Fallout turns out to be a breathlessly exciting action spectacular: the blockbuster spy thriller as sustained endorphin rush. Read full review
91
The VergeBryan BishopJul 12, 2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout merges the franchise’s big-budget spectacle with an utterly ferocious style of action filmmaking that far surpasses what McQuarrie executed in either Rogue Nation or Jack Reacher. Read full review
91
The Film StageConor O'DonnellJul 12, 2018
McQuarrie has proven himself such a keen purveyor of large-scale cinema that not only solidifies Fallout as a benchmark for the franchise, but a bona fide manifesto for breathtaking, high-stakes action–a mission that the genre as a whole would do well to accept. Read full review
90
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJul 30, 2018
To be fair, you can scoff at the antics and still be swept away. The final quarter of Mission: Impossible—Fallout takes place in Kashmir, with a helicopter chase through deep gullies and past snowy peaks. McQuarrie keeps the action crisp and clear, to match the icy air. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 27, 2018
This episode is something special, because the dance is so smashingly gorgeous. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisJul 25, 2018
There’s a whole lot of everything in the Mission: Impossible — Fallout, an entertainment machine par excellence that skitters around the world and has something to do with nuclear bombs, mysterious threats and dangerous beauties. Mostly, it has to do with that hyper-human Tom Cruise, who runs, drives, dives, shoots, flies, falls and repeatedly teeters on the edge of disaster, clinging to one after another cliffhanger. Read full review
90
The AtlanticDavid SimsJul 25, 2018
As these films have gone on, they’ve become more and more fascinated with Hunt’s essential ludicrousness. Mission: Impossible – Fallout decrees him elemental—a crucial, indefinable component keeping the very fabric of humanity knitted together. The film is so dizzyingly fun that, at least while you’re watching, it seems like a sound conclusion. Read full review
90
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Jul 23, 2018
It’s not just “Impossible,” it’s irresistible. Read full review
90
Village VoiceBilge EbiriJul 23, 2018
A cinematic centrifuge of acrobatic stunt work, breakneck chases and immersive action, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a perfectly calibrated piece of filmmaking that plays the viewer like a drum right from the start. Read full review
90
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 12, 2018
McQuarrie clearly believes in creating coherent set pieces: His combat scenes are tense, muscular, and clean, shot and edited in such a way that the spatial geography makes sense. He places audiences just over Cruise’s shoulder, or staring into the actor’s face as he grimaces with exertion. Read full review
90
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 12, 2018
The sixth film in the series is among the most outstanding, delivering a near-exhausting amount of stupendous action sequences paired with deft character drama and the requisite life-or-death stakes. Fallout is a testament to writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, who gives the proceedings a witty, sophisticated grandeur, and yet the film belongs to Cruise and his seemingly limitless passion for putting himself and his audience through the wringer. Read full review
90
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJul 12, 2018
In ragged times, the sophisticated derring-do of Fallout is a welcome gift, a slick and studio-polished adventure that nonetheless has the undermining wink of transgression. The movie’s nerve and moxie successfully make us forget its corporate overlords, and all those other oligarchs grinding millions of American lives into nothing. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJul 12, 2018
Even as the narrative becomes more perplexing — as before, realistic masks conceal true identities, characters' actual agendas remain hidden — the fast-moving spectacle unfolds in extraordinary fashion. Read full review
90
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJul 12, 2018
After two decades, Fallout might be the finest film in the series. (To me, it’s a toss-up between this and Ghost Protocol.) Either way, Mission: Impossible is clearly the best ongoing action franchise in the world. And nothing else even comes close. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJul 26, 2018
“Fallout” just might be the best of the franchise, and what a rare thing that is for a long-running series. Read full review
88
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJul 24, 2018
Mission: Impossible — Fallout is definitely everything we expected, and more. You might need to go lie down afterward, in a good way. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 23, 2018
Mission: Impossible — Fallout, is everything a summer action pic should be — a delirious procession of stunning stunts, epic brawls, state-of-the-art car chases and ticking clock countdowns. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJul 17, 2018
Some of it’s pleasingly old school in its reliance on formidable stunt work. Enough of it, though, gets a digital effects assist for the amazements to scale the heights of plausibility and then leap, like a gazelle, to the adjacent mountain of sublime ridiculousness. Read full review
85
Paste MagazineDom SinacolaJul 26, 2018
McQuarrie’s sense of building a scene on the barest of elements, communicating the most empirical of information, is so breathlessly impeccable, the plot barely seems to matter aside from creating easily understood stakes and giving Ethan Hunt a reason to keep, in the parlance of the film, figuring it out. Read full review
85
Film Journal InternationalKevin LallyJul 19, 2018
Fallout is the boldest of a series that has set a very high (sometimes literally so) standard for breathtaking set-pieces. By my count, the new film has at least seven of them—a generous gift to summer audiences from daredevil star Cruise, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie and stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood. Read full review
83
ConsequenceMichael RoffmanJul 24, 2018
Mission: Impossible knows exactly what it needs to be: a fun and chummy thrill ride that’s always self-aware. Fallout follows that agenda, while also revisiting its more severe roots. It’s a sequel in every sense of the word, reintroducing not only familiar faces, but styles, themes, and motifs of past films. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansAug 14, 2018
Genre convention means it’s a foregone conclusion that this mission is not, in fact, “impossible”, but director Christopher McQuarrie cleverly controls the ticking clock quality that makes these films so much fun. Read full review
80
TimeStephanie ZacharekJul 26, 2018
Mission: Impossible—Fallout may be the best Mission: Impossible movie since the first, made in the dawn of the cat-Internet age, 1996, by Brian De Palma. Or perhaps it’s just the one with the mostest: even by the franchise’s extravagant standards, Fallout throws off Hope-diamond levels of grandeur. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 25, 2018
Whether it’s the next in a long line or a summation of a fun series, Mission: Impossible — Fallout is a movie that all but defines escapism at its finest. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 23, 2018
His sixth Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible — Fallout, isn’t the best of the bunch (that would be number four, Brad Bird’s Ghost Protocol), but it’s easily the second-best and certainly the Cruise-iest, meaning it’s nearly as entertaining as it is strenuous. Which is a mighty high bar! Read full review
80
VoxAlissa WilkinsonJul 17, 2018
In addition to the absurd stunts and convoluted plot machinations, what makes the Mission: Impossible movies work in general, and Fallout in particular, is that they let their characters be characters, driven by a number of complex factors, even when they’re chasing an enemy or trying to get out of a scrape. Read full review
80
Rolling StonePeter TraversJul 16, 2018
The practical effects, meaning the real stuff the computer never touched, make all the difference when you’re asking audiences to see the characters as human instead pawns in a digital game. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJul 13, 2018
This is a film that wants you to live in the moment, to enjoy what is on screen when it is there in front of you and not worry how it fits into a plot that can be confusing but clears up in time for the inevitably rousing conclusion. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlan NgJul 12, 2018
Mission Impossible: Fallout is a worthy addition to the franchise and a fast pace thrill-ride. McQuarrie manages to keep the story, stunts, and structure fresh. Read full review
80
TheWrapRobert AbeleJul 12, 2018
At nearly two and a half hours, it’s designed to test your patience for the things that matter in these movies — violent confrontation, deception, jokey camaraderie, and over-the-top action — but it does so with a remarkably re-engaged fluidity of purpose. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiJul 25, 2018
A relentlessly entertaining exercise in putting Cruise’s Ethan Hunt through his paces again. And again. And again. But hey, there’s much pleasure in watching him continually fall off things. Read full review
77
IGNJim VejvodaJul 12, 2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is a fun but very familiar entry in the long-running franchise. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 27, 2018
As summer franchise movies go, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is near the top of the heap. Read full review
75
Original-CinLiam LaceyJul 26, 2018
Given all the on-screen risk-taking, Mission: Impossible - Fallout plays it pretty safe. What you get is essentially an action movies greatest hits package. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedJul 26, 2018
The result is a film that won’t make a dent in cinema history but, with an ebullient gusto, it is impossible to resist. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 25, 2018
Although perhaps a little too long and not as tightly plotted as Rogue Nation, Fallout offers everything a viewer could reasonably expect from a Mission: Impossible production. It’s reliable. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 25, 2018
Not just one of the best but, at its best, an exercise in pure action-movie propulsion and an essay in how to get from Point A to Point B in the most ingenious and exhausting way imaginable. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckJul 25, 2018
Much ink has been spent analyzing this enduring phenomenon called Tom Cruise, and what motivates him, onscreen and off. “I just want to entertain people,” he said recently. That’s one mission he can still nail. Read full review
75
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonJul 25, 2018
[Cruise] makes the movie fun to watch with his age-defying eagerness and death-defying stunts that bring a reasonably human scale back to blockbuster action, benumbed of late by the low-stakes digital fakery of special-effects movies. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittJul 25, 2018
While the movie on the whole isn’t quite the caliber of the last two missions (“Ghost Protocol” and “Rogue Nation”), director Christopher McQuarrie’s action-packed “Fallout” set pieces are outstanding, finding great character moments in the middle of the explosiveness Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJul 25, 2018
While some are hailing Mission: Impossible — Fallout as something truly special, I wouldn’t go quite that far. It does, however, offer as many thrilling dance numbers—I mean, action sequences—as any of the other installments. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayJul 25, 2018
Even its most irritating parts don’t fatally damage a whole that works amazingly well, despite its own excesses. Read full review
75
The PlaylistKimber MyersJul 12, 2018
There’s a delirious joy in watching this much action, this well executed at every level. Read full review
70
SlateSam AdamsJul 12, 2018
For a massive summer tentpole, Fallout’s pleasures are gratifyingly straightforward, direct without being dumbed-down. It’s a meat-and-potatoes banquet, one that doesn’t need to be interesting to be satisfying. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJul 12, 2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is cocked, locked and ready to blow you away with more than just Henry Cavill's forearms. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 12, 2018
Over two-and-a-half hours, you get a lot of deafening bangs for your buck, and the tourist location stunts are impressive - but there isn’t as much humour in the dialogue as before. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith UhlichJul 12, 2018
As in Rogue Nation, Fallout‘s action scenes are cleanly composed and easy to follow, and so abundant as to become monotonous. Read full review
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