14 WTF Moments From 2018's Summer Blockbusters

7. Walker's Brutal Death - Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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The latest Mission: Impossible movie is pretty much one long 150-minute WTF moment, but surely its most memorably gnarly moment comes during the final mountaintop battle between Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and antagonist August Walker (Henry Cavill).

Walker's face has already been severely burned by hot engine oil, and he's basically just trying to keep Hunt at bay while the 15-minute nuclear countdown plays out.

However, Hunt scuppers Walker's plans as the pair are left hanging perilously off a cliff. Hunt drops a giant metal hook on Walker's head, which embeds itself in his skull and drags him down off the mountain, complete with the remains of a chopper.

Though the PG-13 rating keeps the injury detail scarce, we get to see Walker's corpse bounce off the mountain into the fiery abyss below. A fittingly brutal demise for one of the summer's most deliciously entertaining cinematic douchebags.

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