Review: Mission Impossible 5
By Christine Petralia
Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures
August 12, 2015
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Review
*May Contain Spoilers*
This fifth installment in the Mission Impossible series is everything you can ask for in a action spy film. Tom Cruise reprises his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, and just as the title suggests, he goes on a rogue mission to catch the bad guys. Adding to the mix this time is not only Jeremy Renner, introduced in the fourth film, but Alec Baldwin as CIA Director Alan Hunley.
After completing a mission, Hunt realizes there is a Syndicate, an international criminal group, out there that’s determined to do bad things. He is captured, but escapes with the help of disavowed MI6 agent and Syndicate operative Isla Faust (Rebecca Ferguson). As he starts to track down a mysterious man, William Brandt (Renner) is left to deal with the aftermath of the last mission. Hunley is on a mission to shut down the IMF, so they all go before a Senate committee, leaving them no choice but to dissolve the IMF and redistribute some members, including Brandt and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg). Hunley vows to track down Hunt and stop him once and for all.
Of course, Hunt being the best IMF agent ever, always manages to stay under the radar and is unsuccessfully tracking down the mysterious man, later known as Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), who he suspects is the head of the Syndicate. He reaches out to Dunn for help at an opera house in Vienna. Despite his attempt to stop three assassins, including Faust, the Australian chancellor is still killed in an explosion.
Meanwhile, Brandt recruits former agent Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) to try and track down Hunt before Hunley does. They track him through Faust in Morocco. Faust and Hunt, in the meantime, go on a mission to retrieve a disk with information on the Syndicate members. She takes it to her boss, but not before Dunn makes a copy of the information. And then things get complicated some more. You never really know who’s telling the truth and who is working for who. But isn’t that the point of Mission Impossible?
In the end, the data is kept safe with Hunt and his crew, while they take down the Syndicate and reinstate the IMF with Hunley as it’s new head. This should make for a nice sixth installment, with Baldwin as ‘Mr. Secretary.’
This film really has it all. Action, mystery, drama, pretty faces and more. Yes, it does get hard to follow, but as I said, that’s what Mission Impossible films are all about. If they didn’t leave you guessing until the very end, they’d get pretty boring. I’m glad that Cruise decided to stick around for the fourth and fifth films. As much as I love Renner, I like the dynamic between all of the guys.
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