Decent but not one of the best MI movies

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2015)

This is another decent addition to the Mission Impossible series but it wasn't one of the best. It's missing the two most important ingredients:
1. Interesting characters, especially bad guys (think Vanessa Redgrave in MI or Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3). I hate to say it but Tom Cruise is easily the best actor in Rogue Nation.
2. Thrilling set-pieces (the break-in scene from MI, or the skyscraper scene from Ghost Protocol). Rogue Nation's underwater security hack just didn't quite cut it for me.
Aside from that, it is a perfectly good spy/action flick. The fights are good. Ethan Hunt and Lane (the bad guy) keep outwitting each other in a pretty decent plot.
But it didn't grip me like some of the other MI movies have.