Mission Inescapable: How Can Without be Within?

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2015)

Saw this great action flick last night. Everybody delivers, from Sir Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson to Renner, Rhames, and naturally Pegg. Even... Alec Baldwin!? Is this the best MI yet... hard and pointless to compare. McIntosh apples and Florida oranges. It's fun. The heart pounding scenes come in spikes. And they're great. The action and CG is refined. If it's doable, the blood pumping's finessed. As for the impossibility, improbability or outright likelihood of a rogue mission's success... Christopher McQuarrie went tongue in cheek with this one. If everyone thinks they know how it will end, that must include Ethan Hunt, Benji and the crew, the double spy love interest... even the villain (and Sean Harris absolutely paraded down this Lane), right? Well, whether or not degrees of freedom and suspension of disbelief affect a climax for you, Ethan's unhappily hammered point is taken: When The Hunter is forced to be The Hunted, the only place left to Hunt is in the grip of the trap.