{"id":2306,"date":"2024-08-15T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2024-10-14T00:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T04:31:47","slug":"mission-impossible-rogue-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/08\/15\/mission-impossible-rogue-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation<\/strong> (2015)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount\/Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 131 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sequences of action and violence, brief partial nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Christopher McQuarrie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joe Kraemer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Robert Elswit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 31, 2015 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney, Zhang Jingchu, Jens Hulten, Tom Hollander.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $195M (US)\/$682.7M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\n

\u00a0As much as I hate to resort to clich\u00e9s, I\u2019m going to go ahead and do it anyway. Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation<\/strong> is the best mission yet!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Christopher McQuarrie (writer of The Usual Suspects) directs this fifth installment, once again starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. It contains all the usual Mission: Impossible movies tropes- e.g. breaking into a heavily secured facility to steal a computer file- but McQuarrie takes the pieces and molds them into a slick, exciting, fast-moving action vehicle. I can\u2019t believe I enjoyed it this much, especially since sequels tend to be lackluster retreads.<\/p>\n

Rogue Nation<\/strong> pits Hunt against an international criminal organization called \u201cThe Syndicate\u201d whose leader, sociopath Solomon Lane (Harris, \u201971), is bent on nothing less than world domination. The only problem is that nobody but Hunt believes that such an outfit exists. To be honest, it does sound like the stuff of paranoid conspiracy theory. But they are all too real. Hunt gets captured by them, but escapes with the help of Ilsa Faust (Ferguson, Hercules), an associate of Lane who might actually be more ally than foe.<\/p>\n

\u00a0When Hunt tries to report in, he\u2019s informed by team member Brandt (Renner, The Avengers) that IMF has been disbanded at the request of CIA director Alan Hunley (Baldwin, The Hunt for Red October). Therefore, Hunt has no choice but to go rogue in putting an end to The Syndicate. As usual, fellow agents Benji (Pegg, Star Trek) and Luther (Rhames, Pulp Fiction) show up to lend a hand.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I don\u2019t want to give away too many plot details, but the road to the final destination is paved with thrills and excitement. From an opening scene where Hunt hangs from a plane mid-air to an attempted political assassination at the Vienna Opera House to the kick ass car\/motorcycle chase that follows the aforementioned break-in, Rogue Nation<\/strong> doesn\u2019t skimp on the action. Even better, the action scenes are very well done. Unlike the average Michael Bay-influenced actioner, they don\u2019t assault the senses with CGI and overediting.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019m not a big fan of Cruise, but he\u2019s good in the MI movies. I like that he does all his own stunts. Harris makes a sufficiently evil villain. All this guy needs is a hideout located in a hollowed-out volcano. Ferguson makes a nice addition to the cast as a beautiful bad ass with one hell of a poker face. Baldwin is good as the CIA head determined to end IMF.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The plot isn\u2019t overly complex, but there are a few nifty twists and turns, especially with Ferguson\u2019s character. Rogue Nation<\/strong> is easily one of the best MI entries. I couldn\u2019t have been more pleased consider ing some of the disappointing action movies- e.g. Mad Max: Fury Road, Terminator Genisys- that hit cinemas that summer. How do they keep getting better and better? Franchises tend to run out of gas by the time they get to the third movie, but Rogue Nation<\/strong> shows that the MI series still has plenty of life left in it. It\u2019s an anomaly! It\u2019s what summer moviegoing is all about. It has fights, shoot-outs, chases and amazing stunts aplenty. What more can you ask?\"\"<\/p>\n

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