Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Review

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation


Release Date: 30th July 2015 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Alibaba Pictures Group (in association with)
Bad Robot
China Movie Channel
Odin
Skydance Productions
TC Productions

Distribution
Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 131 minutes


Budget: $150,000,000

Box Office Gross: $682,330,139
(Worldwide)


Plot Summary

With the MIF disbanded, 

and Ethan out in the cold, 

the team now faces off 

against a network of highly 

skilled special agents, the 

Syndicate. These highly 

trained operatives are 

hellbent on creating a new 

world through an escalating 

series of terrorist attacks. 

Ethan gather his team and 

joins forces with disavowed 

British agent Ilsa Faust, who 

may or may not be a 

member of this rogue nation, 

as the group faces their
most impossible mission yet. 
(Source - Metro Cinemas)

Cast
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Jeremy Renner - William Brandt
Simon Pegg - Benji Dunn
Rebecca Ferguson - Ilsa Faust
Ving Rhames - Luther Strickell
Sean Harris - Solomon Lane
Alec Baldwin - Alan Hunley
Jens Hulten - Janik Vinter
Simon McBurney - Attlee
Jingchu Zhang - Lauren
America Olivo - Turandot
Rupert Wickham - Austrian 

Chancellor
Tom Hallander - Prime Minister
Hermione Corfield - Record Shop Girl
Nigel Barber - Chairman
Sean Cronin - Masked Syndicate Man
Mingus Johnston - Lead Biker

Crew
Story/Screenplay/Director -
Christopher McQuarrie
Based on Television Series:
Mission Impossible - Bruce Geller
Story - Drew Pearce
Associate Producer/Unit Production Manager - Thomas Hayslip
Associate Producer - Maricel Pagulayan
Executive Producer - Jake Myers
Producers - J.J. Abrams, Bryan
Burk, Tom Cruise, David
Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger
Production Designer - Jim Bissell
Supervising Art Director - Paul Inglis
Set Decorators - John Bush, Abdenabi Izlaguen
and Gena Vazquez (Uncredited)
Property Master - Ty Teiger
Costume Designers - Joanna Johnston and
Timothy Everest (Uncredited)
Master Armourer - Simon Atherton
Cinematography - Robert Elswit
Underwater Director of Photography - Pete Romano
Second Unit Director - Gregg Emrz
Stunt Coordinator - Wade Eastwood
Fight Coordinator/Trainer/Utility Stunts - Wolfgang Stegemann
Film Editor - Eddie Hamilton
Special Effects Supervisors - Elia P. Popov
and Dominic Tuohy
Special Effects Coordinator - Jess Lewington
Special Effects Coordinator/Buyer: Morocco
Locations - Jalila Otky
Visual Effects Supervisors - Kee-Suk 'Ken' Hahn,
Aleksandar Vishemirski and David Vickery

Visual Effects Supervisor: Double Negative - Tim McGovern
On Set Visual Effects Supervisor - Paul J. Franklin
Visual Effects Consultant - Robin Saxen
Writer: Theme from Mission Impossible -
Lalo Schifrin
Music - Joe Kraemer


Review
In 2011, I first got into the 'Mission: Impossible' series when I first saw the fourth movie 'Ghost Protocol' at the cinemas and began reviewing each of its three previous instalments from the ongoing film franchise. Now that I've seen all five of them, there's no denying that I would rewatch 'ROGUE NATION' and revisit the series to see all of its spy-fi action again. Throughout the years, the series at first was controversial among fans and few of the actors from the well-known classic TV show since 1996 with the release of the first movie by Brian DePalma. Now J.J. Abrams created a new vision in the third and then the fourth instalments which helped resurrect the series and career of its leading actor Tom Cruise. 'ROGUE NATION' embedded the deep-seated blockbuster mayhem strings together which continues the series resurgence through its remarkable plotting and action sequencing. Nothing in the movie gets undermined by the plausibility of Christopher McQuarrie's direction.

The continuation of the acting is remarkable to come from Tom Cruise who is a seasonable acting veteran of all time and has been in the series for almost 20 years. While being his devotion, he appeared to have signs of ageing, although I must say for a man in his 50's, he is still looking youthful and healthy. The other actors like Simon Pegg continue to be the comic relief and Rebecca Ferguson is on a great career path as she becomes the film's leading lady. It is Sean Harris who takes a gander in delving the maliciousness into his major villain role similar to how Phillip Seymour Hoffman did it without being hammy in the third instalment (click here). 

'ROGUE NATION' is still in the same vein as the fourth film but whether it's successful or not, it did blend the elements that were originally used in the previous instalments. This is one movie that you may not want to miss and features Tom Cruise in fine form.

Star rating: (8/10) Very Good Movie

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