MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

(2015) 131 Minutes, Rated PG-13

Bean's Review: Surprisingly, what I expected from a Mission Impossible movie!  Very entertaining and great action.  The storyline was much like the original series storylines.  Tom Cruise is a very good actor and his movies are always very well done.  The plot keeps you guessing as to who are the good guys and who are the bad ones and who begins good, but is really bad.  I was glad to see that the Alec Baldwin character turned out to be a good guy.

  

Rebecca Ferguson was a great addition to the cast.  Her stunts were fun to watch.  I always enjoy watching Jeremy Renner and wished he had been in more of the movie, especially the action scenes.  Simon Pegg is a “hoot”.  Sean Harris was very convincing as the very “bad guy”.  I am not sure why Ving Rhames was in the movie, as his character did not really advance the storyline and he is way too out of shape for action parts.

  

Really enjoyed the movie and the plot, not just the action, kept your attention.

Best scene:  There were many, however, the funniest is when the Prime Minister is given the truth serum dart in the scene with Alec Baldwin, Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise (in the famous MI trademark mask)

Bean’s Rating:  Full price-I will definitely watch this movie again

Mike's Review:  I agree with Bean's and A.C.'s reviews.  I good movie that was entertaining to watch and just as good as the previous four Mission Impossible movies.

I enjoyed the fact that Simon Pegg had a larger role in this installment and adding Ving Rhames this time was strange because he really didn't add anything to the party.  It was also impressive seeing Tom Cruise do the stunts that he did and I am looking forward to the next Mission Impossible.

Best scene:  The second glass box.

Mike’s rating:  Worth the price of the ticket.

A.C.'s Review:  Tom Cruise returns in perhaps his best known role of Ethan Hunt in the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE series. This time it looks like the end of the road for the IMF as congress is preparing to shutter the operation after too many high profile incidents regarding the IMF force such as the destruction of the Kremlin in the last movie.

However before Hunt can be seized by the government he flees and joins his ragtag band of operatives to stop an organization which is basically an “Anti-IMF that are currently behind a series of nefarious evil deeds throughout the world.

The movie doesn’t offer anything you haven’t really seen before in an IMF movie but that doesn’t matter because it’s a pretty exciting  ride. Also Simon Pegg actually is a great fit in his role as comic relief…the polar opposite in terms of how his casting has ruined my favorite character in the STAR TREK movies…Scotty. Back to ROGUE NATION though. There are some great sequences during the movie and the female equivalent to Ethan Hunt is introduced and she is an audience pleaser. The capture of the bad guy felt in tune with what you might see on the original 1960’s TV series.

My only quibble in the character of Ethan Hunt is something of a cypher. Yeah, he’s a lantern jawed good guy but I feel we don’t really know too much about him and what motivates him.

Best Scene: The underwater infiltration of a computer core.

A.C.'s Rating: Full Price