Line #20 YMMV/MissionImpossibleFallout


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2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3	** The real John Lark's motivation. While it's easy to dismiss that he's just a typical anarchical extremist not unlike villains [[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Kurt Hendricks]] and [[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Solomon Lane]], there are hints that he has a far more personal reason behind his actions. When Lark tries to frame Ethan [[spoiler:by convincing Sloane that Ethan is Lark, he gets unusually aggressive when he starts talking about how Ethan had been betrayed and disavowed several times by his own government, and that there will be a point where he will have had enough of it and goes rogue. Was he speaking about Ethan? Or about ''himself''? Considering that Walker is basically a younger, more brutal Ethan Hunt, who has surely gone through some pretty rough assignments of his own under Sloane's command, it's possible that he's faced betrayal from the government he trusted like Ethan had gone through, and this fueled his disillusionment of those in control and he finally snapped, becoming the very person he's trying to frame Ethan as.]]
4	** Sloane acts cocky and confident whenever she's dealing with the IMF, but during her private meeting in Paris with Walker, she acts a lot more like any normal woman with a high-stress, high-stakes job. How much of her normal behavior is a facade?
5	* AwardSnub: Despite receiving unanimous acclaim from critics for its superbly well-shot and edited action sequences, it didn't receive any nominations for Best Editing, Cinematography, or any of the other technical categories at either the Golden Globes ''or'' the Oscars.
6	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Can be seen here.]]
7	* CaptainObviousReveal: It's pretty easy to guess that [[spoiler:Walker is John Lark]] once [[spoiler:he accuses Ethan of being Lark. His assertion isn't entirely unreasonable, but it relies a lot on what-ifs with clearly fake evidence and comes off more as him trying to cast blame on a patsy.]]
8	* CatharsisFactor: In addition to [[spoiler:Ethan being able to hurl Walker/Lark into the fiery helicopter at the bottom of the mountain, Lane after being recaptured being transferred back to [=MI6=] ala placed in the trunk of a car--with the vast implication being we'll never see him again [[ForegoneConclusion for obvious reasons]].]]
9	* CompleteMonster: Solomon Lane returns. See the [[YMMV/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries main series page]] for details.
10	* CreepyAwesome: Solomon Lane has [[SanitySlippage degenerated]] into this, he's now become a psychotic DeathSeeker who speaks in a [[SoftSpokenSadist low, raspy voice]], and is prepared to do ''anything'', [[spoiler: even lose his own life]], just to inflict [[{{Sadist}} as much pain]] on Ethan and his team as possible. He's both very menacing and incredibly entertaining to watch as a result.
11	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Ilsa saves Ethan from Lark by shooting him in the head. Unfortunately, Ethan needed to make a mask based on Lark's face, which they don't have yet, prompting this exchange:
12	-->'''Walker:''' Can you make a mask?\
13	'''Ethan:''' I need a ''face'' to make a mask.
14	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
15	** "Lark", due to the famous bathroom fight scene and the fact that he manages to nearly kill both Hunt and Walker. [[spoiler: Had Ilsa not shot him when he was looking away, she probably would have been killed as well, which is saying something.]] Amusingly enough, the stuntman who plays him is the same one who portrayed previous darkhorses [[Film/TheForceAwakens Nines]] and a member of [[Film/TheLastJedi Snoke's Praetorian Guard.]]
16	** The White Widow, played by the stunning Creator/VanessaKirby, a mysterious woman in white who's as dangerous as she's beautiful, capable of holding her own in a fight and charms Ethan into doing her bidding.[[note]]Granted, she believed he is John Lark at the time and Ethan needs to play the part.[[/note]] [[spoiler:The fact that she's related to Max, an important side character from the first film, and is actually working ''with'' the good guys in apprehending Lane only fuels her popularity.]]
17	* EvenBetterSequel: The film is largely considered as this to ''Rogue Nation''. Some are even saying not only is it one of the best installments in the series, but one of the best action films of ''the decade'', right up there with similar darlings like ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' and ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. It currently sits at a very impressive ''97%'' on Rotten Tomatoes, topping ''Rogue Nation'''s 93%. It also has the highest Metacritic score (86) and the best Cinemascore rating of the series. Not bad for a ''sixth'' film in a long-lived franchise.
18	-->'''Critics' consensus:''' 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.
19	* EvilIsCool: Despite being more evil than ever, some people feel this way towards Solomon Lane, due to how [[AmbitionIsEvil utterly passionate he is about ruining Hunt's life]]. It becomes even better as his main associate, John Lark, is revealed to be way more unstable and insane than what is previously shown in the film, and Lane is the DiabolicalMastermind to Lark's TheBrute.
20	* FanNickname: Walker's [[https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2018-07/30/14/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-06/anigif_sub-buzz-5197-1532975932-1.gif two air punches]] before continuing the bathroom fight against a {{Mook}} became known as the "Arm Reload."
21	* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Series/{{The Crown\|2016}}'' due to Creator/VanessaKirby (who plays Princess Margaret) having a prominent role in this film.
22	* HarsherInHindsight
23	** Seeing Luther with a gun to his head in the opening scene can become extremely uncomfortable when one learns that Creator/VingRhames [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/07/29/police-held-mission-impossible-actor-ving-rhames-at-gunpoint-for-entering-his-own-home/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.62b3f58590c0 was held at gunpoint in his own home by police]], a story which Rhames came forward with during ''Fallout'''s opening weekend.
24	** A scene has Hunley quip about his gun not being loaded is this in the wake of an incident during the filming of ''Rust'' where Creator/AlecBaldwin fired a prop gun that accidentally injured the director and killed a crew member.
25	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Creator/HenryCavill recieved an enormous amount of praise for his menacing, charismatic, and badass performance as August Walker, especially since [[spoiler: this is the first time he's [[PlayingAgainstType played a major bad guy.]]]] Some people even joked that his performance was good enough to make up for the infamous [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 moustache]] [[NeverLiveItDown debacle.]]
26	* HilariousInHindsight:
27	** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' was chided by critics and viewers for having a climax eerily similar to that of ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation''. Then ''Fallout'' launched a publicity campaign that emphasizes somber themes and cold desolate mountains like the trailers for ''Spectre''. Furthermore, Henry Cavill was once in the running to play James Bond. Now, here he is in ''[[FunWithAcronyms MI6]]''.
28	** Creator/JeremyRenner didn't come back for this film because he had to leave to work on ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', another film that also features a foreign spy with blonde hair and "(color) Widow" as a codename.
29	** The sole fact that Creator/AngelaBassett played Amanda Waller several years before. She starred in the [[Film/GreenLantern2011 2011 film]] adaptation of ''Green Lantern'' and met to have played the role onwards, with that film being the launch of a DC cinematic universe. It didn't, but that movie's Waller ended up interacting with the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse Superman.
30	** Stuntman Liang Yang [[spoiler:(the "John Lark" decoy)]] has a habit of dealing with traitors, as Stormtrooper "Nines" in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' (the traitor being Finn), as one of Snoke's praetorian guards in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' (the traitor being Kylo Ren) and in ''MI: Fallout'' (the traitor being [[spoiler:August Walker]]).
31	** Lorne Balfe's score for this film is heavily inspired by his own mentor Music/HansZimmer's works and it's very well received by fans, arguably even more than the score that Zimmer himself composed for ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' years ago.
32	* IKnewIt: Give yourself a medal if you figured out [[spoiler: Walker was the real "John Lark"]] all of three minutes into his introduction. [[CaptainObviousReveal You're not alone]].
33	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt:
34	** Did anyone actually expect Luther to die in the opening scene at the hands of some random arms dealer?
35	** Like they would really [[spoiler: nuke the Vatican, Jerusalem and Mecca]] within the opening of the movie.
36	** [[spoiler:When Luther and Benji cut the fuses on the bombs, we immediately cut to a silent white frame, as if the bombs detonated. But, no, it's just [[CueTheSun glare from the sun rising]] on Ethan's ridge.]]
37	* MagnificentBitch: The "[[AffablyEvil White Widow]]"--real name Alanna Mitsopolis--is Max's grown daughter who [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter took very well to arms dealing herself]]. Being a charitable individual while conducting her criminal activities as her mother also did, White Widow makes a deal with radical "John Lark"--[[spoiler:[[TheMole August Walker]]]]--to deliver him the poisonous toxin orbs needed for his scheme to balance the world while also planning to help him spring the monstrous Solomon Lane from imprisonment too. When Ethan, pretending to be Lark, warns her that men are after her, White Widow trusts him to protect her while also [[DarkActionGirl taking out two of them herself]] with a blade as well. Expecting the collateral damage of cops while Lane is sprung as he's being transferred, White Widow calmly accepts the deaths of her own men as that instead while also clearly still caring too and insists Ethan deal with Ilsa Faust so she's not a problem. Revealed to have been an informant with full immunity for the American government all along, White Widow then helps to ensure a deal that has Lane-once recaptured and defeated—go back to face karma at the hands of [=MI6=] for all he's done.
38	* MemeticMutation:
39	** As soon as the film's title was revealed, there were '''many''' people who made ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' jokes, such as quipping [[ArcWords "War. War never changes."]] in comments sections. The near identical text font doesn't help either.
40	** The aforementioned [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVeNzFFVMAE6Nwy.jpg mustache]], once again, carrying over from ''Justice League''.
41	** Another mean spirited dig at ''Justice League'' is to make a claim that ''Fallout'' manages to make Creator/HenryCavill feel more viscerally superhuman than ''Justice League'' does, a joke that comes up in multiple reviews, discussions, and parody videos, not to mention plain ol' internet posting.
42	** August Walker cocking his fists and loosening his shirt before he prepares to beat up the mook in the bathroom; this scene was shown in the trailer, overlaid with the sound of a gun being cocked which came across as Walker "reloading his arms".
43	** When Walker [[spoiler: gets half his face burned up with helicopter fuel]], people joked that [[Creator/HenryCavill Superman]] [[spoiler: had become Two-Face.]]
44	** The Imagine Dragons' ''Friction'' / M:I Theme mash-up featured in the first trailer is wildly popular, so much so that people are editing it into other trailers for awesome results:
45	*** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC2fLUHEUGw Licence to Kill]]''
46	*** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91J9C4JgAZ0 The Winter Soldier]]''
47	*** ''[[https://vimeo.com/255743112 Spectre]]''
48	*** and, of all things... ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=qyUpQAjv_YQ Paddington 2]]'' !
49	* MoneyMakingShot: As with the Burj Khalifa and plane sequence from the previous two films' trailers, the climax of ''Fallout'' shows Ethan Hunt dangling precariously off a chopper in flight then piloting it for real (after taking piloting lessons ''just for this''), reminding the audience that once again Creator/TomCruise will happily laugh in the face of danger with practical, crazy stunts for your summer enjoyment.
50	* MoralEventHorizon: If Solomon Lane hadn't crossed it in ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation Rogue Nation]]'', he definitely does when [[spoiler:he plans on setting off two nukes to contaminate the water supply of Pakistan, India, and China, affecting a third of the world's population. Unlike Walker, Lane has given up all pretense of being a WellIntentionedExtremist and is only focused on getting revenge on Ethan, to the point where he's willing to die to ensure it comes to fruition. Lane even takes the ludicrously petty step of causing a smallpox outbreak in the area, just so he could set up a medical camp for Ethan's ex-wife to work at and have her killed in the blast, all so Ethan can spend the rest of his life rotting in a cell, framed for Walker's crimes, with the full knowledge that he's lost everyone he cared about.]]
51	* {{Narm}}:
52	** Ethan and Walker's rivalry seems like it's supposed to be an "old school vs. young up-and-comer" deal, which bumps up very jarringly against Tom Cruise's ongoing refusal to act like he's a day over 30 and just makes it come off as a big ConflictBall with how Ethan has never been averse to violence himself. [[spoiler: This could be justified in that this is not the movie's main focus and Walker had no reason to take the rivalry that seriously.]]
53	** The movie has one of the more complicated plots in the series, and gives just enough information for explanation that it trusts its audience to follow along with what's going on. That makes it all the more absurd when the movie pauses a few times for characters to explain ''Ethan Hunt'' to each other or to Ethan ''himself'' in a rather on the nose fashion as if he was a complex character.
54	** One scene featured heavily in the trailers features Walker hiking up his sleeves during the bathroom fight. While intended to make him look like a cool, brutal brawler, many fans joked that it simply looked like he was "reloading" his fists.
55	** Creator/AlecBaldwin did the best he could, but his attempt to fight Lark is pretty rough to look at since it comes off as exactly what it is: An old man trying to keep up with a well-built man in his prime. It's made even worse when the fight actually tries to make it look like he has Lark cornered at first as it's blatant that [[spoiler:Cavill]] is deliberately not moving.
56	* NarmCharm:
57	** On the other hand, Walker and Hunt's rivalry can still be considered cool, as they are the opposites to each other yet both are still fighting for good, and Walker's coldness adds to the interest of the character, comparing to the slightly hotheaded Hunt.
58	** And while scenes with people explaining Ethan Hunt could've been executed better, they did their job in developing Ethan's character to be more than 'Action Movie Hero/Super Spy' he's portrayed as in previous films, showing that Ethan does have flaws and weaknesses like any other person. This is especially evident in the scene with Luther explaining to Ilsa about Ethan's conflicted obligation to his married life with Julia, protecting his friends and the innocent caught in the crossfire, saving the world, and how all of them is a heavy burden to his psyche is pulled off rather emotionally in a realistic deconstruction of the ChronicHeroSyndrome.
59	* NauseaFuel: Some people winced when they saw the infamous shot where Creator/TomCruise broke his ankle.
60	* ObviousJudas: It's so blatant that [[spoiler:Walker is Lark]] that even the movie itself hardly treats it as TheReveal, instead setting up a firm BigBadDuumvirate with him and Lane about halfway through.
61	* OneSceneWonder:
62	** 'John Lark', the Asian hitman that Ethan and Walker fight in the toilet (played by professional stuntman, martial artist, and fight choreographer [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2403982/ Liang Yang]]). He manages to take both of them on at the same time [[spoiler:despite getting knocked out earlier, and he actually ''wins'' the fight. If Ilsa didn't arrive and put a bullet in his head when he was off-guard, Ethan's brains would've been decorating the floor instead.]]
63	** And in the exact same scene, the "Rowdy Frenchmen" who knock on the toilet door while Walker and Hunt are making a mask of his face, who mock them due to it looking like they are having a gay orgy.
64	** To a lesser extent, Nils Debruuk due to his utterly annoying yet somewhat lovable laughter.
65	* SignatureScene: The first trailer has at least three:
66	** The shot of Ethan jumping between two buildings, due to the moment where Creator/TomCruise is shown breaking his ankle;
67	** Hunt and Walker teaming up to fight a Mook in a bathroom, due to the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic effective]] [[MickeyMousing synchronisation]] with the ''Mission: Impossible'' theme. It also became infamous for Walker's iconic "arm reloading" where he throws a few air punches to ready himself before continuing the fight.
68	** Hunt dangling from the chopper.
69	* WatchItForTheMeme: There was a joke about some people just wanting to watch the movie to see if Creator/HenryCavill's mustache was worth the troubles ''Film/{{Justice League\|2017}}'' went through.[[note]]Creator/{{Paramount}} executives contractually forced Cavill not to shave it for the reshoots of ''Justice League'', which caused complications and ended up as a [[SpecialEffectFailure CGI disaster]] on that film. Ironically, Tom Cruise ended up suffering an ankle injury that paused production for nine weeks, which was more than enough time for Cavill to be able to shave the mustache, film his scenes and wait for it to regrow, making this whole exercise AllForNothing.[[/note]]

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