Fantastic Stunts & Good Story

Rating: 8/10 (31 July 2015)

I saw "Mission:Impossible-Rogue Nation", starring Tom Cruise-Jack Reacher, Rock of Ages; Rebecca Ferguson-Hercules_2014, A One Way Trip to Antibes; Sean Harris-Deliver Us From Evil, Prometheus and Alec Baldwin-Rock of Ages, The Departed.
This is the 5th installment in the MI franchise and it is a goody. The opening sequence has Tom jumping on top of an airplane that is rolling down the runway, about to take off-Oh yeah, it is filled with deadly nerve gas. He hangs on the side of the plane as it ascends and it is really Tom doing it, with no special effects or stuntmen. The amazing thing of the whole stunt is that Tom is 53 years old and looks like a 35 year old doing it. FYI: For the ladies out there, there are several scenes in the movie where Tom performs shirtless. As far as plot lines go, there is an organization- hinted at in the final moments of Ghost Protocol called The Syndicate-that is after the complete destruction of Tom and the whole IMF team. I guess you could call them a Rogue Nation. This Syndicate is run by Sean, who works from the shadows and Rebecca works for him-you can think of her as the opposite side of the coin to Tom. Alec plays the head of the C.I.A. and he wants to shut down the IMF too, but for different reasons-he doesn't like it that they break so many rules and get things done that the C.I.A. can't accomplish.....or maybe, do you think he is just the tiniest bit jealous? Who knows. So while Tom and his IMF team are trying to save the world, they are also on the run from all sides; good guys and bad. Besides the opening plane stunt, there are plenty of car and or motorcycle chases, underwater stunts and plain old physical fisticuffs to keep you on the edge of your seat. There is nothing after the end credits but if you see it in IMAX-like I did-the opening IMAX countdown that is usually done before the movie starts, has a Mission:Impossible style countdown that is intertwined with it. I saw Tom on a talk show and he said that he is already working on the next one in the series, numero 6. It's rated "PG-13" for the action, violence and sexual content-partial nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 11 minutes. Fantastic stunts, good story, I guess you could say that I enjoyed this movie and I would buy it on Blu-Ray.