10 Reasons Mission: Impossible - Fallout Is The Best Ever

Coming mere minutes of screentime after the HALO jump sequence is the bathroom fight scene.

Now, in a lesser movie, this sequence could have felt incredibly by the numbers. The narrative set-up is, quite simply, Ethan and Walker have to trank a man they believe to be Lark so that one of them can assume his identity. But the genius of this sequence comes from McQuarrie's ability to expertly wrinkle the set-up into an entirely different conflict.

When Ethan's tried-and-true 'scalpel' method is foiled, Walker's 'hammer' method is put into play. Walker bashes the man in the head with his bag, knocking him out but accidentally breaking their computer in the process, meaning they can't make a mask to assume his identity. To top it off, the man then wakes up and engages both Ethan and Walker in a fight scene in which they completely destroy the entire bathroom.

Mirrors are shattered, walls are broken down, pipes are pulled out of the wall to be used as weapons, and it is glorious. McQuarrie and cinematographer Rob Hardy shoot the whole sequence in wide shots so that audiences can see the full-bodied motion of all three performers, resulting in a hand-to-hand combat sequence that is markedly more visceral than what the franchise is used to.

And the fact that the film plays into this makes it even better. Ethan and Walker are outperformed by the man they're attempting to subdue, being bested by his ludicrous martial arts skills at nearly every beat of the sequence.