

Sloan isn’t sure she trusts Hunt or Hunley, and so wants one of her own men on the crucial mission, someone she knows will do whatever it takes to complete the mission. He is handed a sidekick by Alan’s superior Erica Sloan ( Angela Bassett) in the form of the brutish August Walker ( Henry Cavill). The head of the Syndicate has been passed around intelligence agencies, looking for information on the IMF Agent-killing group, but he’s also a part of this new plot to end the world.Īs the movie opens, Hunt is tasked by his boss Alan Hunley ( Alec Baldwin) to go to Paris to find John Lark before he buys the plutonium. Ethan Hunt ( Tom Cruise) has to get the plutonium back, but there’s a ghost haunting him in the form of Solomon Lane ( Sean Harris), the villain from the last film who Hunt left alive instead of killing. They have been working with someone clearly on the inside at IMF code-named John Lark and have conspired to obtain weapons-grade plutonium to create three dirty bombs.

They have a belief that suffering leads to peace, and so it’s time to unleash the pain.

But there’s no fat on this movie, even early on, where action so often takes too long to get to the “good stuff,” and definitely not late when the movie is intense enough to leave you exhausted.Ī group called the Apostles wants to create chaos. So many action movies spend forever with monologuing villains and extensive set-ups. Ferguson made a striking impression as Ilsa Faust, an agile agent with a haunting backstory who could both outrun Tom Cruise and fill out an evening gown with the best of the femme fatales.For the first time in this franchise, director Christopher McQuarrie has made what is basically a direct sequel to the previous film, “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” Wasting absolutely no time, “Fallout” drops viewers into the narrative, getting the important details out of the way so the action can get started. ShowBiz411 reports that Ferguson is “signed, sealed and delivered for part 6” and that’s great news for a franchise that has built a core cast of likable male characters played by Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and Jeremy Renner but was a little low on the female roles. With the exception of Michelle Monaghan’s brief Ghost Protocol cameo, Ferguson is now the first Mission: Impossible leading lady to make a repeat appearance. In the interest of getting the entire band of the enormously popular Rogue Nation back together, Paramount has also locked down Tom Cruise’s co-star Rebecca Ferguson to return as Ilsa Faust. Mission: Impossible already broke with franchise tradition when it was announced that Rogue Nation director Christopher McQuarrie would return for the sixth installment.
