Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
- The original script for Mission: Impossible - Fallout was written over a decade before production finally began in 2018.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Christopher McQuarrie's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- Before Tom Cruise was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is a 2018 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the first Mission: Impossible sequel by a returning director and widely considered the franchise's finest entry. When a mission to purchase stolen plutonium from black market arms dealers goes wrong, Ethan Hunt must race to recover the nuclear material before a shadowy group called the Apostles can detonate three simultaneous nuclear weapons. CIA agent August Walker, played by Henry Cavill, is assigned to shadow Hunt, and the question of Walker's true loyalties drives the narrative tension alongside the ticking-clock nuclear threat.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout featured Tom Cruise's most dangerous and impressive practical stunts โ a HALO jump from 25,000 feet filmed at actual altitude, a helicopter chase through Norwegian fjords with Cruise at the controls, and a rooftop sprint across London during which Cruise broke his ankle on camera and continued the take. The bathroom fight scene, in which Hunt, Walker, and an adversary engage in a brutal three-way brawl, was praised as one of the most viscerally impactful fight sequences in modern action cinema. Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa Faust continued to be the franchise's most compelling addition.
Fallout earned $791 million worldwide, the highest-grossing Mission: Impossible film, and received near-universal critical acclaim.





