![]() ![]() ![]() This is a franchise that is getting better and better. With the help of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), Hunt works to take down Lane and the Syndicate. Mysterious Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) helps him escape but is also working for the Syndicate. Hunt is captured by Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) and the murky Syndicate organization. ![]() William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) is forced to work under him. CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) gets the IMF disbanded. Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 8 / 10 franchise getting better than everĮthan Hunt (Tom Cruise) retrieves stolen nerve weapons in a daring operation. ROGUE NATION comes third in my list of favourite MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE films, better than the first two but behind the fourth and third ones. Worst of all is Rebecca Ferguson as one of those irritatingly perfect action women who comes out on top time and time again she has one stock expression on her face from beginning to end and really got up my nose. Cruise goes through the motions with aplomb, but Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames have so little to do that you wonder why they bothered showing up. ![]() But the script is below par and makes odd choices, like making Simon Pegg a secondary lead when he's not been around much previously other than playing the token geek. The motorbike chase in Morocco is a highlight, and the early plane stunt is great fun, especially as it was filmed close to home. Superficially the film is entertaining a movie with tons of action like this would be hard pressed not to entertain. We get the usual template film, featuring massive action chase spectacle sequences, a heist or two, plot twists and betrayals, and lots of sparky dialogue between the lead characters. The film has much in common with SPECTRE in that it sees Tom Cruise and his team going after a mysterious organisation set on controlling the world, although the organisation here seems to consist of one guy, master villain Sean Harris, who is incidentally on autopilot throughout. Sadly I was hoping it would be as good as the previous instalment in the franchise, GHOST PROTOCOL, and it doesn't come anywhere close to that film's quality too much of it is filled with unrealistic scenes and humour which really starts to grate after a while. ROGUE NATION is the latest MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and by my count the fifth in the series. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Not bad, but a big step down in quality from the last two ![]()
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