#5 on my list is Mission Impossible: Fallout
PLOT
Ethan Hunt who is played by Tom Cruise, one of my favourite actors, leads a team trying to buy plutonium cores from gangsters before the real terrorists can buy them. When this goes wrong Hunt and his team must race against time to save the world from collapse. The movie is action packed with great fight scenes and a good story. Almost all the fight scenes look real and the VFX is outstanding. There are a few cut scenes throughout the movie to explain the past but the plot is easy to follow.
SHOTS
With almost every type of shot pulled out of the filmmakers handbook your eyes never get bored, and if you blink you might miss something. Like most movies there are lots of wide shots to illustrate a new city/location, close up shots for intense scenes like action or romance, and quick tracking shots to show speed.
INTERPRETATION
The story highlights the crazy possibility that if government agencies are not watching terrorists they could sabotage the worlds food, water, and energy before we could react. Although I use this movie to get my mind of the real world there is always the possibility that similar plans are already being made around the world to hurt people. You can see that teamwork is key to making sure any plan works, in movies or real life, and that not everything in life is easy. I noticed that a lot more civilian/normal work (police officers, pedestrians etc) is included. You get a quick look into the lives of these people as the movies progresses, especially the lives of police officers which are taken without a moments notice.
EVALUATION
I found the film exhilarating, funny and action packed and agree with ratings that this is one of the best if not the best film in the series. I eagerly wait the next film and hope they can bring the same standard that the franchises fans have come to expect. I would like to see a little more into the life of the other side characters in Ethan Hunts team but I understand with all action and details of the story that are included in the movie the run time would be close to three hours long. One of the main things that stood out to me was the incredible colour grading, especially in places where lights flashed and under bridges and in canals where light was filtering through gaps in manholes. The use of shadow to build up suspense and the lighting in the foreground and background was superb.
