Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation
Before Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation, the theatre showed the trailer for the next James Bond movie, Spectre. In it, Bond is chasing after a shadow organization bent on taking out MI-6. Spectre is just one charismatic person, the uber Bond villain.
As I watched Mission Impossible, I had the distinct impression that I was watching the James Bond movie.
Mission Impossible had a charismatic bad guy running a shadow organization bent on taking down IMF. No need to watch the next James Bond. Catch this instead.
This installment of the Mission Impossible films rolled all the previous Mission Impossible movies into one. It had the back-stabbing of the first installment, the boring-ness of the second, a nod to the rabbit’s foot in the third, and Simon Pegg as Benjie, the comic relief from the previous one. It should’ve been awesome. It wasn’t. This installment lacked the propulsive force of the previous two and returned back to the sneaky capers of the first two. In fact, it felt like the first Mission Impossible film — the intrigues was more important than the action pieces.
Cruise was running in this one. He also had his stunt hanging on the plane. Good, but not the best. The girl was a Bond girl. She was very competent. I hope she shows up in the next one.
Watch it, but it will be better on FXX.
3 of 5 stars.
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I thought the exact same thing. Did they really intend to show a Spectre preview before this movie? Spy wars?! we already know who will win.
I liked this movie because I like the franchise. And I like watching Cruise do even more death defying crazy stunts, but the story was like Skyfall/Spectre lite. Renner's character didn't do much because he's supposed to be the next Bourne or Hunt, whichever. I think the Studios can't decide.
Either way, some of the dialogue and Ethan Hunt worshiping was a little over the top and grandiose. Bond would never do that. I heard the ending was rewritten. I wonder what it was before because I may have preferred it. I like Mission Impossible. I love the action. I like having an American spy team.
But I love James Bond, who leads the pack in Spy Genre. Cruise should stick to the MI legacy and glorious stunt productions. He will never be Bond. And this movie was an apéritif to Spectre.
I should add. I did like Rebecca Ferguson's character "Ilsa Faust" a lot. Being the mirror for Ethan Hunt's character. That was cool for women in film. Although the strict comparison to Ingrid Bergman was again "over the top" as all things Cruise are.
Made me miss seeing Angelina Jolie. Maybe we have a new female action hero coming our way.
I'm not feeling the next Bind film. This Bond incarnation is very Bourne like in style. I did like Skyfall, but I'm not yet psyched for Spectre.
As far as MI5, I thought it too much went away from the last to installments. This one was missing the flow of them, because the action came sparingly.