Nevertheless, Mission: Impossible – Fallout features a subtle callback to the 2000 action blockbuster by featuring a scene in which Ethan Hunt and his team trick a terrorist into giving them the information that they want in a fake hospital.
There’s a case to be made that Mission: Impossible 2 doesn’t necessarily get all of the credit that it deserves in terms of how well executed the action is.
The main difference in Fallout is that Wolf Blitzer is the disguise instead of a supposedly dead Russian scientist.
This is particularly reminiscent of the first sequel in the franchise in which Ethan masquerades as Dr. Nekhorvich in order to trick John C. McCloy into giving him the information that he needs so he can infiltrate Biocyte Pharmaceuticals and destroy the Chimera virus before Sean Ambrose and his thugs can steal it.