Winning in some parts, losing in others

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2015)

The Mission Impossible franchise was originally a sort of high action serial heist movie. Every film an impossible task was set and they beat it. The strengths of the film were in the technical details, the planning to overcome all odds and the acrobatics of Ethan Hunt. This got old pretty quick and they had to come up with novel ideas, like a worked script and compelling villains.
Rogue Nation introduces a compelling villain and shows great work on the script level indeed, so for me this was a win. However, it loses almost everything on the technical and planning stages, making it all seem (as it actually is on the studio) routine. The only problems they have in Rogue Nation are their opponents, and by that I mean the one true villain. The rest, cannon fodder, look as impotent as children compared to all mighty Hunt.
While better than I expected, it lost a lot of what made a film a Mission Impossible movie. The villain, the girl, the storyline, they all seem stolen from a James Bond movie. Yes, all MI films do, but this one a lot more than any others.
Bottom line: if I wanted American James Bond clones, I would have gone with Jason Bourne. What am I talking about? I am going to watch Jason Bourne, too!