Film Review: Mission impossible: Rogue Nation

 Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Cert: 12A

Director: Christopher McQuarrie

Screen writer: Christopher McQuarrie, Drew Pearce , Bruce Geller.

Starring: Tom Cruise , Jeremy Renner , Simon Pegg , Rebecca Ferguson , Ving Rhames , Sean Harris , Simon McBurney, Jingchu Zhang , Tom Hollander , Jens Hultén ,  Alec Baldwin , Mateo Rufino , Fernando Abadie , Alec Utgoff , Hermione Corfield 

Running time: 131 min

 

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity:  According to official MPAA Rating there will be one to two scenes involving partial nudity.

Violence & Gore: If it's like the previous movies, expect lots of action and violence, but with little to no blood.

Profanity:  mild to strong language

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Little drug use expected.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  There are pretty intense chase scene on motorbikes & car chase.

Story: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF

Likes : As most of the mission impossible film franchise you have the intense moments which give the film its edge which is also good for an action film, special when a film starts off this way, "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" begins with an intense scene involving Tom Cruise hanging on to an flying air plane, a scene that is in the trailers.

The scene is really intense, and I am really quite amazed by the stunts & yes this is actually tom cruise doing this stunt, no ,c.g.i, no green screen, im not joking he's actually hanging from the door as the plane takes off for real. Tom said in a interview that out of all the stunt hes done that one scare the s**t out of him lol. (the guy is a nut case but a legend).

Taking of stunt work the motorbike chase scene are unreal, brilliant done very fast & very intense, the bikes use as you can tell in the film are real M.P racer bikes hence the reason why they can tilt the bike at an angle to go around the corners at high speed, this add to a real brilliant chase that look awesome on screen.

 Special the car stunt driving at high speed in narrow streets was some of the best driving ive seen, not sure if it was actually tom cruise doing the driving or a stunt driver, but the drive drifting around corners so tight was some of the best stunt work ive seen in a film for a long time.

The absolutely beautiful Rebecca Ferguson awesome actress playing the female fem-fatal highly trained Assassin, but damn she looks good in a dress.....She come's of as a very strong woman that can take care of her self while playing what seem's to be both sides but she doing it for a reason, which come of brilliant for her character on screen very believable, beautiful & dangerous.

Tom cruise brilliant as always as Ethan hunt, do the stunt without a stunt man take some b*lls, but this is what makes him an awesome actor, only in this film he's kind of met he match in the face of Sean Harris who play Lane of the anti IMF who comes of a serious bad ass villain for the story, he come off as this form SAS, special force type guy turn mercenary for a rogue nation calling themselves the syndicate, which works for his acting i feel these screen writer played to his strength as an actor.  

Simon Pegg i will admit was funny as hell, being his usual self in this film with the one-liners & funny sense of humour he came off brilliant in this film , its was actually good to see Alec Baldwin back on the big screen after the problems he was having, but still comes off as a great actor it was like he never left the big screen, brilliant performance from him in this although he only has a few brief scenes. 

The film itself is pretty good there are moment where its a little slow in places but along with the action scenes & stunt this MI film is very intense & entertaining, it follow the events of the last film where the team is under federal court for their action, which set up the story of a inside order trying to bring them down, which lends to an intense cat & mouse game as Ethan hunt is trying to find out who. 

Although out of the franchise most of these film have been somewhat good, i feel MI2 & MI3 were the best one's, although i enjoyed watching this latest one, which i found more intense than the last one on stunts alone. this is a film worth checking out weather it on big screen or dvd.

Dislikes : The only problem with these film which i have noticed, not sure if anyone else noticed this is that we find out that he married in MI3, yet there is no mention of ethan wife from the other films, this might be nic picking but i feel as if the wife concept shouldn't of been put in to the film real, not that it matters that much, but i feel if there should of been a mention of something like she divorced him or something happened to her.That really my only complaint about the film really.

Overall : intense stunt scene, awesome chase & car chase stunt, brilliant acting, good story concept.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 9.1 out of 10 for concept