Mission Impossible: Fallout - 18 WTF Moments

15. The AWESOME Toilet Fight

Mission Impossible Fallout Henry Cavill
Paramount

The toilet fight in Paris is surely one of the best-crafted close-quarters fight sequences in any Hollywood blockbuster of the last few years.

Hunt and Walker track "John Lark" (Liang Yang) to a bathroom inside the nightclub, where a fight breaks out and the two quickly subdue Lark, dragging him into a bathroom stall to make a mask from his face.

After some drunk Frenchmen get the wrong idea about the three men huddled in the cubicle together, Lark fights back, leading to an insanely brutal fight involving broken toilet doors, smashed mirrors, pipes, Walker pumping his arms like they're guns, and Lark eventually getting his head blown off by Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson).

The pin-sharp editing, the crunchy sound design and the physical performances - especially the tenacious work of stunt performer Liang Yang - combine to make this an absolute masterpiece of a fight scene.

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