Truitt goes on to say, “Watch Tom use acrobatics and tight abs to escape capture! Watch Tom hold his breath for a long time underwater! Watch Tom hold on for dear life as he dangles outside a plane mid-takeoff!”
Truitt also added, “Cruise’s superspy Ethan Hunt continues to hang with the Bonds, Bournes and Bauers of the world in the fifth Mission: Impossible movie, written and directed by Edge of Tomorrow scribe Christopher McQuarrie.” The action prize gets a little lost in its own spycraft, but offers scenes both fast and furious and a fabulous couple of additions to the company of IMF (in case no one knows, it stands for Impossible Mission Force).
The “Rouge Nation” part of the title means a reprehensible new secret organization called the Syndicate, which utilizes presumed-dead operatives from around the world to carry out terrorist acts and tear down the global system that initiated them. Well, Ethan Hunt will not tolerate that as America’s top secret agent, though he’s a fugitive from the government itself after one too many rouge missions.
From Belarusian airspace to the Vienna Opera to the streets of Morocco, Ethan is playing cat-and-mouse with a new villain in this one – Solomon Lane, played by Sean Harris – while making an ally in the mysterious Ilsa Faust (the hot Rebecca Ferguson), a capable agent and lethal weapon herself who has been dealing with the deadly Lane.
I guess Truitt is right when he says, “With a number of movies under its belt, the M:I franchise finally has Avengered itself” – previous movie missions are referred to when CIA chief Alan Hunley, played by Alec Baldwin, makes a strong statement to shut down the IMF crew forever. It’s like action genre’s best stars of supporting characters around Ethan, including by-the-book agent William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), hacker extraordinaire Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and tech guy Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg from the “Cornetto Trilogy”), who finally gets thrown into some dangerous fieldwork.
“Rouge Nation” gets complicated in its series of twists, though McQuarrie gives a surprising amount of welcome humor, sometimes with the gadgets – watch Tom use a bass flute as a rifle – and other times in the tiring that comes after one close-to-death episode or another.
While not as nice as the action scenes in the last “Mission: Impossible” movie, “Ghost Protocol,” there’s some stellar moments here, especially a adrenaline-rushing chase through Casablanca on motorcycles and in sports cars, with a soundtrack consisting only of revving engines and Pegg’s frightened screams.
There’s not much character development in here with Ethan this time around, though you don’t need it as much with all the stunts Cruise is doing. (At 53, Cruise’s still outstanding.) Yet he has met his match in Ferguson’s mysterious Ilsa, an attractive bone-breaker female fatale who looks like she stepped right off the set of a James Bond movie.
Put her together with Cruise again would be a “Mission: Impossible” not to watch.
In the end, I would have to say this movie will not disappoint fans at all if they have seen or are going to see the movie. You have to see this movie if you haven’t, so go see it if you haven’t and if it’s still playing in a theater near you. I actually think this is the best in the series. When Tom Cruise was interviewed on “The Daily Show,” he hinted at a sixth movie to be made starting next year, so let’s see if they will because I will welcome another movie, since this series is running on a high note right now.
Alright everyone, thank you so much for joining in on my reviews all throughout September, and…wait a minute. Next month is October. You know what that means? HALLOWEEN MONTH!!! It’s time to start prepping for those horror movie reviews again because it will be an exciting month. See all of you then and stay tuned.
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