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Friday 27 July 2018
Tom Cruise thwarts the apocalypse on a broken ankle

By JOCELYN NOVECK director-writer Christopher
And so, fellow moviegoers: McQuarrie, Cruise delivers
Ask not what your country all the above in the ridicu-
can do for you. Ask what lously entertaining "Fallout,"
Tom Cruise can — and will his sixth outing as Ethan
— do for you. Hunt. As for the plot, well,
The answer is anything. you may chuckle in con-
The man will do anything fusion. It gets unnecessar-
to entertain you. At age ily complicated. For most
56, when the rest of us are movies, this would be a
making chiropractor ap- much bigger problem. But
pointments and upping our because "Fallout" moves
corrective lenses, Cruise so quickly from one crazy
will jump out of a plane for stunt to another, it doesn't
you, into a lightning storm. matter. You'll think, "Hmm,
He'll learn to fly a helicopter what?" But then, "Whoa! Is
for you, all for one nausea- Tom about to jump off that
inducing helicopter piloting building?" We begin, as al-
stunt — yep, he's piloting ways, with a new mission —
AND acting — that sends this time, it arrives in a hol-
him into a death spiral in lowed-out copy of Homer's
"Mission: Impossible - Fall- "Odyssey," perhaps a refer-
out ." It should go without ence to Hunt's own journey.
saying that Cruise will hang This image released by Paramount Pictures shows, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise Hunt must get his hands
off a sheer cliff for you. Oh, and Ving Rhames in a scene from "Mission: Impossible - Fallout." on three missing plutonium
also: he will dangle off a Associated Press cores.q
rope from a helicopter,
then bungee jump off it for it will surely seem silly. One
you. day, people will chuckle World premieres at Venice
And finally, Mr. Cruise will sympathetically at the ex-
shatter his ankle jumping ploits of this well-meaning
from one building to anoth- but wrinkled movie star, for Gosling, Cooper movies
er for you — and then sprint perhaps in his 80s then,
like hell on that broken an- putting his life in danger
kle. Because, what's an MI to please his fans. Now, on the Lido.
film without a Cruise sprint? though, is not that day. Tilda Swinton and Dakota
One day, if this continues, With his partner, returning
Johnson are paired in the
horror movie "Suspiria" by
Luca Guadagnino, who
earned acclaim for last
year's "Call Me By Your
Name."
Among other films being
shown for the first time are
"Roma," Alfonso Cuaron's
first film since "Gravity;" Mike
Leigh's "Peterloo," about an
1819 massacre in northern
England; and "Sunset" by
Journalists are silhouetted against the logo presenting the Hungarian director Laszlo
75th edition of the festival, during its presentation in Rome, Nemes, who captured the
Wednesday, July 25, 2018.
Associated Press 2016 Academy Award for
Best Foreign Language Film
Associated Press Land," which also opened with "Son of Saul."
ROME (AP) — The Venice the festival and earned six Debuting out of competi-
Film Festival will feature Oscars, it stars Gosling, who tion for the Golden Lion
plenty of Hollywood star plays Armstrong. are Bradley Cooper's "A
power, including premieres "The Ballad of Buster Star is Born," in which he
for a biopic of astronaut Scruggs" is the new offering stars alongside Gaga, and
Neil Armstrong starring Ryan from the Coen brothers. It the police abuse drama
Gosling, a period western started out as a television "Dragged Across Con-
by the Coen brothers with series before being turned crete" with Mel Gibson and
Liam Neeson, and Bradley into a movie featuring Tom Vince Vaughn.
Cooper's directorial debut Waits. Golden Lions for career
starring Lady Gaga. Emma Stone, Olivia Col- achievements will be pre-
The 75th edition of the man and Rachel Weisz star sented to British actress
world's oldest film festi- in an irreverent royal com- Vanessa Redgrave and
val opens on Aug. 29 with edy set in the early 18th Canadian filmmaker David
the world premiere of "First century called "The Favou- Cronenberg at the festival,
Man" by Damien Chazelle. rite," by Yorgos Lanthimos, which runs through Sept.
Like his previous film "La La which also makes its debut 8.q