Mission: Impossible - Fallout

The sixth entry in the Mission: Impossible film series, Fallout has Ethan Hunt and his team set out to recover stolen plutonium from the same terrorist organization as the last entry while being monitored by the CIA. While I liked Rogue Nation, I didn't love it as much as Ghost Protocol, this one was a huge improvement over the last one though I find it to be second best to Protocol. And to be clear I still haven't seen the first three films nor the television series that they're all based on. Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan, and Sean Harris all return alongside newcomers Henry Cavill and Angela Bassett and they all provide great performances. The action scenes, in my opinion, are all better done compared to the last one though some of the fight scenes, like one that takes place in a bathroom, as well done as they are feel laking since you expect someone to draw blood and they don't. Fallout's best quality is the various twist and turns, reveals, and plot twists that keep on coming every minute. Returning to direct and write, a first for the series, Christopher McQuarrie does a phenomenal job at creating brisk and amazing sequences while telling a great story with heart pounding moments. You learn the reason why, despite being abandoned and disavowed numerous times by the IMF, why Hunt is willing to do what he does time and time again and it makes you root for him constantly. Over all: 100%

2018 top list so far:
1. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

2. Incredibles 2

3. Avengers: Infinity War

4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout

5. Solo: A Star Wars Story

6. A Quiet Place
7. Deadpool 2

8. Black Panther
9. Ant-Man and the Wasp

10. Ready Player One

11. Sicario: Day of the Soldado

12. Ocean's 8

13. Isle of Dogs

14. Game Night
15. Thoroughbreds

16. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

17. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom