FC icon Tommy Cruise knows not the color of a green screen. The palpable relief upon realizing his health after flying over a car hood infuses Fallout, and the entire MI series, with a beautiful authenticity. And, as he leaps across tall buildings in a single bound to stop Superman, or, well, the guy who plays him, we applaud.

The Apostles, disciples of the Syndicate and bent on creating a new world from chaos, now possess plutonium owing to Ethan Hunt’s (Cruise) unbridled devotion to his friends. Á présent, Hunt and the IMF find themselves in a bit of a cornichon with our hero spinning around the Arc de Triomphe while evading actual police.

And let’s two-face it, Ilsa (Furgeson) and her seeming alliance to every faction and organization is the new story. She is selfish yet compassionate; as brutally honest as she is shady and her relationship with Ethan teases from the many chicanes the film enters.

Ultimately, Chris McQuarrie’s return as director lends continuity to character, story and style that we hold onto while all has gone, or is going, haywire. In making the impossible barely possible, Fallout rises into elite status with 4.76 napkins out of 5.