Movie Review: Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

 Action/Adventure/Spy

Rated – M – Action violence

Duration – 131mins

Release – July 2015

Director – Christopher McQuarrie

Cast – Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin


Mr Knight

After dragging Mrs Knight into the cinema on this one, for my sake, it had to deliver! After two hours and ten minutes of break neck pace action throughout countries all over the world I left the cinema feeling that Tom Cruise again got the job done.

Cruise returns as Agent Ethan Hunt, in his fifth instalment of the Mission: Impossible movies, finds himself and his team under CIA scrutiny after the Kremlin was levelled in Ghost Protocol. With the head of the CIA, Alec Baldwin’s Director Alan Hunley, shutting down the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) and breathing down Hunts neck, he must stay off the grid whilst trying to bring down a secret and dangerous organization known only as the Syndicate. As a result, Hunt goes rogue.

During his relentless pursuit of the Syndicate and having only a glimpse of its leader, Hunt continues to cross paths with an associate of the Syndicate, Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust, putting him in a hazardous position of not knowing where to place his trust.

With a score of high tech gadgets and some of the most impressive top of the range BMW’s, bolstered by Simon Pegg’s wisecracking, gadgets expert, Benji Dunn and recent addition to the team Jeremy Renner’s William Brandt, Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation uses the group dynamic and top of the line spy gear to its advantage.

What has seemingly gone extinct from the latest Bond hits with Daniel Craig at the helm, Mission: Impossible stays true to the international spy storyline and keeps the fun in the mix where others like it have taken a serious turn in the story telling.

A tip for the fellas: don’t take your partner to the later session if she has an early start the next day and already didn’t want to see it. However, it still had enough of the right mix of action, charisma, gadgets and thrills to keep the movie a joy to watch for all involved. And it was also refreshing to see a modern day spy film not about stopping a nuclear device! About time! 


 



Mrs Knight

I feel it’s best to begin this review by telling you that I haven’t seen any Mission Impossible films since I was a kid. I also had no intention of seeing this one. In saying that, I expected all action, no story line, long, sexist sexualisation of women with past their prime men acting like they are still the bomb.

I wasn’t too far off with a lot of this, but it was definitely better than I expected. We see Ethan (Tom Cruise) and team take on their most impossible mission yet (surprise surprise). They need to destroy the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.

The characters were surprisingly enjoyable to watch. Despite my opinion on his personal life, Tom Cruise puts his name to good films and (generally) always delivers. I was impressed that the leading lady, played by the incredibly gorgeous Rebecca Ferguson wasn’t in her twenties. There were the usual close up of her ass, shots of her getting out of the water etc… but it wasn’t over done which I appreciated. I did enjoy the relationship and mistrust between her character Ilsa and Ethan, a lot was said without words. I will also always smile if Simon Pegg is on the screen.

It’s a popcorn flick. I don’t feel like I have much else to say, except it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I’m being generous with my review since in real life I didn’t sit still for one minute, looked at my phone constantly and day-dreamed about chocolate. However, I believe this was the time of night’s fault and not the movie.