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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson
Tom Cruise does his own stunts – and he just might be the living, breathing version of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. Somewhere in a dusty attic, there’s a painting that is ageing because Cruise certainly isn’t.
The guy is 53 years old – and one month – and this is his fifth outing as Ethan Hunt since the first Mission: Impossible in 1996.
What’s more, there’s another scheduled for production, the sixth in the series. Rogue Nation is fantastic fun, like it should be. In Ghost Protocol, Hunt and his team had to go under the radar. This time, Hunt is out in the cold, alone in the search for a shadowy figure who is behind the sinister syndicate.
There is an impossible car chase that morphs into an impossible motorbike chase.
Then, there’s an impossible escape from an archnemesis and all of this is accomplished against the backdrop of global destruction.
All Hunt has as support is shadowy beauty Ilse, played by Swedish-born British actress Rebecca Ferguson (who is 21 years Cruise’s junior, but they are romantically matched); Simon Pegg as the technically brilliant if slightly un-athletic Benji; and Ving Rhames and Jeremy Renner joining the action later. Christopher McQuarrie, of Valkyrie, Jack Reacher and Edge of Tomorrow fame, takes his third successful swipe as director here.
It is an action-packed, slick, fast and fun two hours. Also, it’s not 3-D, which was a bit of a blessing for me
