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 Mission Impossible: Fallout Review:             After two decades of playing Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise is back in the sixth installment of Mission Impossible: Fallout .  A culmination of the previous films and the best one in the franchise.           Now that Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) has been apprehended and the Syndicate has fallen, the CIA has been on a mission to eradicate all former members of the organization.  This move has spawned a new, more dangerous organization called the “Apostles.”  Their ultimate goal is to set off a nuclear bomb and starve one-third of the world’s population bringing a new world order.            To achieve that goal, the Apostles stole plutonium, partnered up with the mysterious John Lark and a radical scientist to create their weapons of mass destruction.  Enter Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team Benji (Simon Peg) and Luther (Ving Rhames) to intercept and try to stop their nefarious plans but things didn’t go so well.  The team ended u
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Equalizer 2     For the first time in his career, Denzel Washington has again teamed up with Antoine Fuqua in a return role as Robert McCall in The Equalizer 2 .   When we last saw Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), he was battling the Russian mob in efforts of helping Alina (ChloĆ« Grace Moretz) out of a bad situation.  Now, almost four years later, Robert is still covertly helping people while posing as a Lyft driver.  In the opening scenes, Robert is on a Turkish train trying to stop a kidnapping.  When Robert informs the kidnapper as to why he is traveling to Istanbul, the kidnapper walks to the car door, locks it then gives the signal to his goons to take him out. Robert sees this and clicks his stopwatch. The rest is history.  Next time we see Robert, he is walking into his favorite bookstore and whom does he see sitting behind the counter?  The little girl he rescued.   Robert goes about his daily life as the unsuspecting Lyft driver picking up and dropping o