The sixth “Mission: Impossible” film, “Fallout,” has the most fun toying with its audience.
The first time it does so is one of the best surprises I’ve ever experienced in a movie.The set-up: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Mission Force (Imf) team fail to stop a terrorist group called the Apostles from stealing three plutonium cores.
So, they capture nuclear physicist Nils Delbruuk (Kristoffer Joner), a member of the Apostles.Cut to two weeks later, with Ethan and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) standing in a hospital.
Delbruuk is handcuffed to a bed while the room’s TV blasts CNN.
Newscaster Wolf Blitzer (as himself) is reporting how the world’s three holiest cities — Rome, Jerusalem, and Mecca — have been destroyed, with footage from the nuked cities included.
Have our heroes really failed this badly? Delbruuk thinks so.Delbruuk makes a bargain with the Imf; have Blitzer read the Apostles’ manifesto on-air,…
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