Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Directed by	Christopher McQuarrie
Produced by	Tom Cruise; J. J. Abrams; Christopher McQuarrie; Jake Myers;
Written by	Christopher McQuarrie
Based on	Mission: Impossible; by Bruce Geller
Starring	Tom Cruise; Henry Cavill; Ving Rhames; Simon Pegg; Rebecca Ferguson; Sean Harris; Angela Bassett; Michelle Monaghan; Alec Baldwin;
Music by	Lorne Balfe
Cinematography	Rob Hardy
Edited by	Eddie Hamilton
Production; company	Skydance; TC Productions; Bad Robot Productions;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 12, 2018 (Paris); July 27, 2018 (United States);
Running time	147 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$178 million
Box office	$791.7 million

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a 2018 American spy action thriller movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie and is the sixth movie in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan, and Alec Baldwin. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout premiered in Paris on July 12, 2018. It was released in the United States on July 27. Its sequel, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, was released in 2023.

Cast

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: An IMF agent and leader of a team of operatives.
Henry Cavill as August Walker: An assassin working for Sloane in the Special Activities Division of the CIA sent to monitor Ethan and his team.
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: An IMF agent, a member of Hunt's team and closest friend, and a computer technician.
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn: An IMF technical field agent and a member of Hunt's team.
Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust: A disavowed MI6 agent who crosses paths with Hunt again, after being assigned to eliminate Lane in exchange for exoneration by MI6.
Sean Harris as Solomon Lane: An anarchist mastermind who was the leader of the Syndicate, later known as the Apostles.
Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane: The new Director of the CIA replacing Hunley, and Walker's superior
Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis / White Widow: An arms dealer and the daughter of deceased arms dealer Max, whom Hunt arrested during the events of the first movie.
Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade: A doctor and Ethan's ex-wife
Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley: The former Director of the CIA who later became the new IMF Secretary.
Wes Bentley as Erik: Julia's husband
Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis: Alanna's brother and right-hand man.
Ross O'Hennessy as a British agent
Liang Yang as the John Lark decoy
Kristoffer Joner as Nils Delbruuk: A Norwegian rogue nuclear weapons specialist.
Alix Bénézech as the French policewoman whom Ethan saves from Alanna's and Zola's men in Paris
Caspar Phillipson as a plutonium dealer
Wolf Blitzer as himself: A disguise worn by Dunn.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 442 reviews are positive. The average rating is 8.4/10. The critic consensus reads, "Fast, sleek, and fun, Mission: Impossible - Fallout lives up to the "impossible" part of its name by setting yet another high mark for insane set pieces in a franchise full of them."^[5] On Metacritic, the movie received a score of 86 out of 100 based on 60 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[6]

Mission: Impossible – Fallout Media

Director and writer Christopher McQuarrie in 2022
Michelle Monaghan in 2018
Pulpit Rock, Norway, is the location of the final battle between Ethan Hunt and August Walker.
The cast and crew of Mission: Impossible – Fallout at a promotional screening of the film in July 2018.
Critics singled out the stand-out performance of Vanessa Kirby with praise (pictured in 2024)