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Why 'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation' is better than 'Fallout'


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Rogue Nation is better for various reason but the most foremost is the character Ilsa Faust , who is basically the female Ethan Hunt and Rogue Nation is more her movie than it was of Ethan Hunt's and Rebecca Ferguson played her incredibly well stealing the spotlight from Tom Cruise. The fact that she kept you guessing on which side she was on, her incredible chemistry with Hunt which is the best the series has seen easily overshadowing Michelle Monaghan's Julia and Thandie Newton's Nyah. She not only kept Hunt on his toes but kept challenging him and usually coming out on top. So do they use this fleshed out character well in Fallout? Absolutely not. They make her into a bad side character whose reasons for being there make no sense. They under-utilize her and then make her into a generic love interest for Hunt.

Action Sequences - Now in no way do I think that Fallout's action scenes are bad, they are the best sequences Action Movies as a whole have ever seen but the problem was they didn't serve the plot as well as Rogue Nation. In Rogue Nation every action scene is earned and services the plot, be it the car chase or the underwater heist or the opera fistfight. There are consequences to each scene and further the plot. But in Fallout they seem to be there for the sake of being there. The only place where the action worked really well was the helicopter sequence which was incredible. Fallout has much better individual action pieces while Rogue Nation makes it work by connecting each other. So the pacing is much faster in Rogue Nation which hits us with one sequence after the other with incredible pace this makes for a extremely well paced movie.

The Plot - This the weakest point of the movie, the absolutely predictable plot. It was obvious from the start that Henry Cavill's August Walker was John Lark and the movie takes stupid decisions just to put Hunt in a worse situation for him to get out of. Angela Basset then proceeds go against Hunt and they kill Alec Baldwin in a terrible fashion who deserved better. The movie also engages in the most clichéd action plot of all time, race against time to stop the bomb from going off, everyone who has watched any action movie knows that the bomb won't go off and thus it erases the tension of 'what's gonna happen next'. It also uses the plutonium as a MacGuffin , first making him go after the white widow for it and then Solomon Lane. Compared to this, Rogue Nation does a much better job of keeping the audience on its toes. The End goal isn't a bomb , its capturing Solomon Lane and stopping him before he gets his hands on the money which would make him unstoppable. He is smarter than Hunt and is always 2 steps ahead of him which makes Hunt take measures he would never have ever taken just to make sure the money doesn't fall into Solomon's Hands. This Faceoff between the two is great and putting Ilsa Faust between just elevates it.

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Hem.... why Fallout raised the bar https://vocal.media/geeks/why-mission-impossible-fallout-is-one-of-the-best-action-films-of-all-time


Rogue Nation is great, though. I can 100% see why it’s a fan-favorite.

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The last three M:I movies have been excellent. Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation, Fallout had all raised the par for me. 7 and 8 better be great!

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I also think RN is better. And the first point about the use of Ilsa Faust is absolutely the main reason. That character was amazing in RN. Stole almost every scene she was in.

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I agree that Rogue Nation is better. Fallout's plot is too contrived. The action scenes are good but they got some John Wick treatment. Isla character was a nice addition to Rogue Nation, but in Fallout it is superfluous, as it is Luther. They also went a bit too far with jokes in that one.

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