![]() She was meant to be Ethan’s exit strategy from the spy game, but he kept getting drawn in, to the point where they had to fake her death so she wouldn’t be in danger from Hunt’s many enemies. Monaghan’s character has been a dangling emotional thread since the end of J.J. But that’s not enough - he also wants Ethan to suffer and therefore, puts his wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan), right in the middle of the blast zone. The idea is to create terrible suffering so that there can be great peace. His plan is simple: contaminate a major water source for a third of the world’s population by detonating two nuclear devices. Today, Hunt has seen some shit and is the seasoned veteran, while the White Widow is a doe-eyed criminal.Ī major theme of Fallout is tearing down the old world order, the major ambition of Syndicate founder Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) and his followers (known as “The Apostles”). Max was a seasoned and cynical arms dealer, while Ethan was a young and bright-eyed IMF agent. And now, we enjoy the repartee between Cruise and Redgrave’s cinematic daughter, with the characters mirroring the ages and personalities of Cruise and Redgrave in the mid-1990s. We enjoyed the repartee between Cruise and Redgrave back then. It fell flat because it wasn’t organic it wasn’t familiar to the reality established since Craig’s first Bond film, 2006’s Casino Royale.īut the callback to Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible via Kirby’s character works because there’s a sense of familiarity there. ![]() Trying to keep up with the trend of cinematic universes, it brought in the classic villain Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), hoping that the presence of such an iconic character would be enough to justify the tenuous explanation that all of the Daniel Craig movies were connected via the machinations of one bad guy. This kind of universe building is something that the James Bond franchise didn’t understand with 2015’s Spectre. ![]() That Ethan should be working with this link to the past is a recognition of the passage of time, while also tying the first six movies up in a neat bow. One way in which writer/director Christopher McQuarrie accomplishes this is through Vanessa Kirby’s White Widow, a Parisian-based arms dealer who, in a surprising reveal, turns out to be the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave’s Max from the 1996 film that started it all she even kind of resembles a young Redgrave. In many ways, Fallout feels like the end of an era and the beginning of something else. ![]() Fallout changes that, not only looking back the most, but using the past to forge something new. More than most long-running franchises, it’s also not particularly self-referential, only rarely looking back at what’s come before, ensuring that each installment can stand strongly on its own. Each installment delivers on thrills, laughs and intrigue. ![]()
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