MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT  4.0*** 

  Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt returns once again with his crew but this time three nuclear plutonium cores have been stolen and Hunt must  retrieve them to avoid a nuclear holocost. .  He’s joined by his reliable crew of Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames along at times with Alec Baldwin and they're joined by Henry Cavill as a no-nonsense CIA operative and Rebecca Ferguson as a British MI6 spy. 

This movie has rejuvenated what had been a mostly weak summer of action-blockbusters. Sure there have been a couple of sort of good movies but thankfully this film is so far better. Actually, it's excellent. 

Its excellence comes from a commitment to the craft. Normally, three months of intensive training are required for someone to qualify for a helicopter pilot's license. Tom Cruise, in preparation for this film, did it in half that time. How? By training 16 hours a day, seven days a week. He did all this for one action sequence. The same dedicated training went into his training for the parachute drop from the rear of a cargo plane. That’s the level of commitment to the craft that went into this movie. 

Each grand set piece (all of which are glorious) fills the frame just right. Very little CGI is used, which makes everything look real because it is real. We aren't watching a contrived creation of what is supposed to look like Tom Cruise zipping through town on a motorcycle-he's actually zipping through town on a motorcycle, and he’s actually parachuting from a high altitude plane and piloting a helicopter. All of that pays off in a big way. It delivered what are some of the best, most intense action sequences in years. 

Each scene flows smoothly into the next, rarely pausing to catch its breath. It brings to mind memories of 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' which featured a similarly breakneck pace and continuous propulsion.  

Rated PG-13 for violence and intense sequences of action, and for brief strong language