Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you okay to drive? A minute ago you were dead."

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is still as amazing as the first time I saw it. From Tom Cruise hanging on a airplane to the way they trap Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) at the end, you'll realize that you have been watching another Mission: Impossible sequel for about 135 minutes. I'm still at awe how it is even possible for a franchise to get better with each installment.

The ingredient here is the role of Ilsa Faust played brilliantly by Rebecca Ferguson. She's the young indestructible Ethan Hunt. While Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is getting older, might even be a step slower and more vulnerable then he ever was. Which is a good thing. What also helps is that in every damn sequel they get the big set pieces right. The opera scene in Vienna? Awesome. The chase scene in Casablanca? Brilliant. The opening stunt? Epic.

And yet again, the cast is getting better too. Simon Pegg stepping up and is so lovable as Benji, Jeremy Renner being the funny guy was a great move (so sad he couldn't be part of the next installment), seeing Ving Rhames as Luther never disappoints and adding Alec Balwin? Brilliant!

Anyway they even amped up the spy stuff! Loved the story in this one too. Christopher McQuarrie was a great choice to direct this and I am so happy he is returning for part 7! And man, that tune never gets old!

Lovely rewatch!

Honestly, how do these movies keep getting better? They just keep finding crazier stuff to do and Tom Cruise does it. Rebecca Ferguson is a great addition, she is wonderful. Sean Harris plays a good villain, the second best one in the series behind Philip Seymour Hoffman. I really like that this feels much more like a continuation of the same story from Ghost Protocol unlike the first three which were almost completely separate stories. Very much looking forward to Fallout.

Pulled out the Blu-ray to test my new setup. I really don't think I gave this movie proper credit when it came out. Its so so amazing. Not only are the action scenes exhilarating set pieces not ruined by green screen overkill, they're funny too. This series always gets that right, injecting humor into super serious badass action.

I think this was another situation where I couldn't judge the movie properly the first time around because the weight of the previous film. Ghost protes is one of my fave movies of all time. It's a tough aft to follow even if you follow it with one of the best movies of the year. It's a real WALL*E/Up situation.

Building over the previous instalment, Rogue Nation proposes a plot that involves a deep-secret organisation hidden in plain sight within the confines of the world-wide intelligence community. Of course, this isn't something new, at all (S.P.E.C.T.R.E. did all that back since the late 50's). The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist, and just like that The Syndicate goes to extreme lengths to cover its tracks, not too convincingly. I mean, The Syndicate has been operating with almost unlimited funding since 9/11, but has never been able to manage a true chaos environment to thrive in and keep the status-quo... and that's a complete failure of its mission statement, specially with that kind of budget. The real C.I.A. did better than that with just a a minimal fraction of that money in South America in the 60's and the Middle East in the early 80's. The action scenes are good enough, but none of them surpass the elegance and thrill of the Burj Khalifa sequence in Ghost Protocol (and that's sad, in my opinion). Sam Harris isn't as convincing as he needs to be as the main antagonist, and I did find his exposition scenes a little bit forced, and within the Hollywood cliché that the villain has to explain everything to us, mere mortals, instead of just just killing the hero. The Chinese investment in the film is felt and unwelcome, in my opinion, just like it happened to Marvel in Iron Man 3, trying to add Chinese characters and scenes (trust me, those 15 extra minutes of the Chinese plot in Iron Man 3 available only in the Asian version of the film are worthless). Overall, this is a fine movie, albeit of lesser quality than the previous one in terms of scope. IMF is always (except in the first 2 movies) in the verge of disappearing, and 4 of the movies have the characters in rogue mode, so it's a little bit disappointing to me that they are still beating that same dead horse once again. Please, it is that hard to portray a few flawless missions just as the TV series did in a hundred episodes with a bare-bottoms budget and good acting?.

revisiting the previous two movies before watching Death Reckoning Part One, i gotta say it never gets old watching that intro sequence where it's all hectic and high energy, pure chaos, then Ethan Hunt comes running, Tom Cruise's stunts are truly out of this world, and i still cannot believe that this man really pulled off the strapped-to-an-airplane stunt. a whole. **AIRPLANE.**
& Solomon Lane has got to be one of my favorite villains from any movie franchise ever, especially the Mission Impossible one, so far. The actor just fits perfectly well with this character and are a great match in my opinion;
i love how they managed to give Lane his very own poison, and got him frustratingly trapped in a glass box at the end, just like Ethan was at the start

& finally,
_"I can neither confirm nor deny details of any operation without the Secretary's approval."_
that line is just hilarious, especially at the end

THIS ONE WAS SUPER FREAKING AWESOME AMAZING AND THE BEST ONE FOR ME SO FAR. FANTASTIC ACTION SEQUENCES AMAZING STORY AND SPECIAL EFFECTS, AWESOME STUNTS, SUCH AN INTERESTING STORY AND TOP NOTCH PACING. THE BAD GUY WAS JUST THE BEST AND THE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN HUNT AND HER WAS JUST THE BEST. AND THEM FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE WAS SPECTACULAR, LOVED HOW SHE FOUGHT LIKE
BLACK WIDOW, EVEN BENJI GOT HIS POUND OF FLESH IN THIS ONE, (STILL NO MASK FOR HIM THOUGH) LOL.
WHAT CAN I SAY MORE MY FAVOURITE WAS NUMBER 3
9/10
TILL THIS ONE CAME ALONG AT A VERY VERY STRONG
10/10. IT WAS SO CLEVER AND SLICK n COOL. I'LL HAVE SOME MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE. BAR SO HIGH NOW BE HARD IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (see what i did there) TO BEAT.
SPEAKING OF THIS WAS THE BEST IMPOSSIBLE MISSION THEY HAD YO BEAT YET.

<3 <3 Tom Cruise is so hawt
#ShiftvW8

A franchise that gets better with each installment, this was great, the set pieces were brilliant, and the team know exactly what works now, The Cruiser for me is the Postman, he always delivers!!! Thoroughly enjoyed this

I've really enjoyed this franchise so far (other than one less than stellar film) and damn, this film carries everything on. Honestly, one of the main reasons I love the franchise is probably because they are so similar to the 007 franchise. Instead, these are a bit more light with jokes and, obviously, American. Except they spend some time in the UK this time.

Anyway, yea, about this specific film. Great action. I mean look at this photo because it was awesome. Specifically though, the car/motorcycle race in here is just so engaging and fun. I've got to say, Tom Cruise might be crazy, but he is a great action star.