So Thursday night was movie night, which mainly involved
indulging in a Venti Starbucks English Breakfast Tea with a dash of milk and a
delicacy from their muffin and biscuit range (currently the biscuit of choice
is a Nutella cookie) and on this occasion some action filled adventure with the
IMF Team.
Now I must admit, I’m not a huge Tom Cruise fan, I think in
his career I maybe like three of his movies, namely
- · Outsiders
- · Rock of Ages
- · Top Gun
Other than that I can pretty much take or leave the
rest. When it comes to the Mission
Impossible series, I wasn’t overly impressed with the first 3 movies. I didn’t like the way they made Jim Phelps a
bad guy. I was a child of the 80’s and
saw the original TV series on re-run and the idea of taking that character and
making him the complete opposite to how I perceived him kind of rubbed.
By the time we got to Mission Impossible 5 and the
introduction of Jeremy Renner as Brandt and the development of Simon Pegg’s
character Benji I started to enjoy the franchise more and that I think it what
I like about Rouge Nation.
While the movie has the typical ‘hold your breath’ stunts
that we’ve come to expect from Cruise the fun for me was in the play off
between Ethan and Benji. Benji makes the
movie fun and it seems to have lightened Ethan Hunt’s character from the first
film. There are some great one liners
and the typical kind of comic mishaps you expect from any character Pegg plays
and that’s what makes him likeable and fun to watch.
The story – I’ll try to keep it spoiler free – follows the
hunt for the Syndicate who are an anti IMF group. Like all good espionage movies there is a
central villain and Hunt is determine to unmask him and all that comes along
with that. Old favourites including Ving
Rhames return and Jeremy Renner’s Brandt has taken on the mantle of
representing the politically savvy pseudo man in charge. I like this dynamic of a smaller team that
over the last two movies you’ve become more invested in rather than the only
constant being Cruise with an ever changing cast around him.
There is of course a gorgeous femme fatal played by Rebecca
Ferguson who some may remember from the adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s “The
White Queen”. Rebecca is great in this
role, she has a real depth to her and you do wonder whose side she’s really
on. The ‘girly girl’ in me loved her
wardrobe in this movie, it’s exactly how you would imagine a femme fatal to
look and had elements of old Hollywood glamour with a hint or contemporary
elegance.
Anyway, the movie is extremely fast paced, with the right
amount of comedy to action and the spy style special effects you have come to
expect from this franchise. I really
enjoyed it and wouldn’t object to seeing it again which is always a good sign
to me, if I can go back to the cinema, next visit or visit after and see the
same film without feeling bored or disappointed that’s a thumbs up.
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