Sure there are death-defying stunts, but is it Tom Cruise hinting at homecoming for Ethan Hunt?
The Mission: Impossible - Fallout trailer came out all guns blazing during Super Bowl 2018.
It featured Henry Cavill go ape in an action scene, it marked return of Michelle Monaghan, it teased a possibility of a love triangle, and it showed how Tom Cruise broke his foot again.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the sixth movie in the series is scheduled to release on July 27, 2018.
The official synopsis of the movie goes like this -
The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong.
But when the mission hasn't gone wrong for Ethan Hunt?
The first movie came out in 1996 and the scene in which Cruise is hanging from the rope became iconic.
As the franchise progressed the stunts became riskier and it felt like Cruise was merrily experimenting away with how far can he push his physical limits.
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Come Mission: Impossible - Fallout, we see Tom Cruise engage in a chopper dogfight, been towed away hanging from another helicopter, and probably face Henry Cavill and his superhuman biceps in a hand-to-hand combat.
But the tone of the trailer, set to Imagine Dragons' track 'Friction' from their 2015 album Smoke+Mirrors (the introductory notes of the song come dangerously close to the theme of MI movies, first composed by Lalo Schifrin) suggest that finally, Ethan Hunt has gone from Man on the Mission to Man on the lose. Cavill's character tells Angela Bassett's character 'How long before he has had enough?'
But then the following montage shows all the stunts, that Cruise has perfected over the years, go wrong.
Rock climbing creeps back but Cruise is seen struggling. We see the iconic rope climb but the chord gives up. The guy breaks his ankle on camera, gets dumped int the Thames, thrown off his bike, and as the trailer ends, we see him possibly ramming his chopper into a truck!
Watch the trailer
If this is where Cruise wants to stop making MI movies, I will support the decision. Come home, Cruise. You were fabulous in American Made, let's do Magnolia kind of stories, or how about Risky Business revival? Let Ethan Hunt finally come home to Julia.
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