The 007 comparisons don’t stop there, though, as McQuarrie places a handful of colorful adversaries in Ethan’s way, from the notorious “Bone Doctor” (a whiz with surgical knives) to a hulking henchman Hunt must dispense of in a riveting fight scene set in the Vienna Opera House. Whenever Rogue Nation does slow down, it’s to enhance the characters, most of which we have grown to trust and care for over the years. That spectacular airplane stunt you no doubt already witnessed opens the film in a splashy Bond-esque fashion, yet even as McQuarrie and Cruise settle in to the current mission, the movie hardly ever takes its foot off the gas. The fifth Mission grabs you by the throat immediately, and rarely releases its relentlessly tight grip for a full two hours. And yet, it’s happening, so why not enjoy the experience?Ī substantial story is appreciated, but you come to Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation seeking thrills, and this movie delivers. It annoys me that I have to phrase it this way, but the fact that the Mission sequels continue to improve film after film – from M:I 3 to Ghost Protocol to this – is impossible.
It introduces stunning new characters in the mysterious Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson, essentially the female Hunt) and the sinister Solomon Lane (Sean Harris). It accepts the gauntlet thrown down by Brad Bird’s Ghost Protocol, staging hugely impressive set pieces while furthering a stronger story that makes better use of Ethan Hunt’s entire MIF team (meaning Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames and Pegg aren’t sidelines there).
(He did Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise, and if you haven’t seen that yet, you are missing out.) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has a half-dozen, at least, and they’re all connected by a taut, menacing spy plot conceived and executed by the intelligent action director Christopher McQuarrie. I guess my point is that rival action thrillers would kill to have one of the intricate, physically demanding and just plain damn cool set pieces that I’ve briefly described above.
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