Director:
Christopher McQuarrie
Writers:
Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay),
Christopher McQuarrie (story)
Stars:
Tom Cruise,
Rebecca Ferguson,
Jeremy Renner |
Storyline
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin) convinces a Senate committee to disband the
IMF (Impossible Mission Force), of which Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a key
member. Hunley argues that the IMF is too reckless. Now on his own, Hunt
goes after a shadowy and deadly rogue organization called the
Syndicate.
MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE Movie Reviews
I
remember when I first saw this film in theaters and the lights dimmed
the first thought that ran through my head was "Here we go again" as I
released an involuntary sigh of apathy. Somewhere along the line, before
seeing this latest installment, I had decided to re-watch the original
four films and realized that the character of Ethan Hunt really has no
defining characteristics beyond just basically being Tom Cruise. This
bothered me for some reason. Jason Bourne was a fully fleshed out
character and even the new Bond films had added newer elements to give a
traditionally stereotypical character more depth and complexity, but
Ethan Hunt is just...bland. He has no personality. What seemed even
stranger to me was the fact that Mission Impossible was supposed to
revolve around a team, yet Tom Cruise is seemingly always the only one
who ever does anything. So basically these films boil down to watching
Tom Cruise perform his own stunts, which I will admit are extremely
impressive, especially in this latest escapade. However the plots of all
five films are basically nonsense to try and connect each elaborate
stunt to the next. Then I realized that all 5 films have remarkably
similar story lines as well. Tom Cruise has a mission, something goes
wrong, he goes rouge, needs to find some kind of MacGuffin, the villain
is some kind of terrorist arms dealer, insert random forgettable love
interest here, big stunts, the end.
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