Some have compared "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" to "Mad Max: Fury Road." Both were a relentless barrage of practical effects that barely had any exposition and backstory. Their goals were to grab your attention and not let go of it. Whereas the previous installment of the Mission Impossible franchise, "M:I - Rogue Nation," was a more elegant, and refined spy movie that had the best action sequences of the series, "Fallout" went for broke with some of the most astonishing action sequences of the decade.
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You can always count on the "Mission: Impossible" franchise to deliver much-needed thrills during the summer movie season. It helps that Tom Cruise, playing IMF agent Ethan Hunt, does his own stunts, which brings an authentic feel to the set pieces that most summer blockbusters would lack due to overreliance with CGI. "Ghost Protocol" had Tom Cruise hanging on for dear life on the Burj Khalifa skyscraper. In "Rogue Nation," the Vienna State Opera House sequence, a blend of nastily rendered Hitchcockian suspense, stunned us with its risk-taking acrobatics.
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