Taglines: Some missions are not a choice.
Two years after Solomon Lane’s capture,[N 1] the remnants of his organization, The Syndicate, have reorganized as a rogue terrorist group called the Apostles. IMF agent Ethan Hunt is assigned to buy three stolen plutonium cores in Berlin from “elements of the Eastern European underworld” before the Apostles can.
He is joined by Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell for the mission, but the team fails when Stickell is taken hostage and Hunt’s attempt to save him allows the Apostles to make off with the plutonium. The team later captures nuclear weapons expert Nils Delbruuk, who designed nuclear devices for an extremist named John Lark, who hired the Apostles, in order to find Lane.
Furious at the IMF’s failure to secure the plutonium, CIA Director Erica Sloane instructs Special Activities Division operative August Walker to shadow Hunt as he attempts to retrieve the plutonium. Hunt and Walker infiltrate a nightclub party in Paris where Lark is believed to be buying the cores from arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, also known as the White Widow, who acts as the middleman in the sale of the plutonium.
They track a man whom they suspect to be Lark, but while attempting to subdue the suspect to assume his identity, the man is killed by MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, who intervenes in order to save Hunt. Hunt sticks to the plan and assumes the role of Lark without a disguise and escapes from the hitmen sent to kill Lark and Mitsopolis.
To secure the plutonium, Mitsopolis tasks Hunt with extracting Lane from an armoured convoy moving through Paris. She provides one of the plutonium cores as down payment. With Mitsopolis and her brother intending to use excessive force on local police, Hunt and Walker attack the convoy by alternate means, leading the police and Mitsopolis’s men on a chase across Paris while Dunn and Stickell secure Lane. Faust reappears and attempts to kill Lane to prove her loyalty to MI6, but Hunt evades her and the extraction is successful. Mitsopolis instructs the team to deliver Lane to London.
At a safehouse in London, IMF Secretary Alan Hunley confronts Hunt about being the real John Lark, based on evidence doctored by Walker and passed to Sloane. Hunt denies it and incapacitates Hunley to continue the mission, leaving Walker to guard Lane. However this is a trick, with Dunn disguising himself as Lane forcing Walker to admit he is the real Lark and working with the Apostles.
The IMF inform Sloane, who sends in a CIA unit to detain everyone. However, the CIA unit has been compromised by the Apostles and Walker orders them to attack instead. Walker kills Hunley and escapes, and Hunt chases him across the city, but is unable to apprehend him. Before escaping, Walker threatens the life of Hunt’s estranged wife Julia and departs for a medical camp in Kashmir with Lane.
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Wes Bentley, Frederick Schmidt, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin
Screenplay by: Christopher McQuarrie
Production Design by: Peter Wenham
Cinematography by: Rob Hardy
Film Editing by: Eddie Hamilton
Costume Design by: Jeffrey Kurland
Set Decoration by: Jille Azis, Arnaud Putman, Lee Tolley
Art Direction by: Jill Cormack, Matthew Gray, Oliver Hodge, Gary Jopling, Steven Lawrence, Phil Sims, Ken Turner, David Weare, Thierry Zemmour, Agata Maliauka
Music by: Lorne Balfe
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and intense sequences of action, and for brief strong language.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: July 27, 2018
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