<em>Mission: Impossible—Fallout</em> Doubles Down on the Ridiculousness of Its Hero
The latest entry in the long-running Tom Cruise action franchise is a giddy, essential spectacle.
If America has a James Bond, it is Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the persistently bouncy hero of the franchise, whose sixth entry, , hits theaters this week. Bond was framed as a paragon of British upper-class smoothness, a tuxedo-clad man’s man who felt most at home at a Monégasque casino, ordering martinis and killing bad guys with equal suaveness. Hunt is none of these things. He throws his whole body into every problem he encounters, crashing against walls and diving
