A Wild Ride

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2015)

Tom Cruise takes you on a wild ride in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The opening scene sets the pace: He hangs onto a plane as it takes off in order to retrieve its hazardous payload. Cruise, as Ethan Hunt, needs to bring down The Syndicate, a rogue group of international agents with a terrorist agenda: To accomplish his mission, he must find the group's leader and the flash drive that contains secret bank account numbers for the group's operating expenses. As he gives chase, Hunt runs into Ilsa Faust, played by Rebecca Ferguson, a British Agent who keeps you guessing who she's really working for. But Jeremy Renner, as the head of the IMF, got the most laughs from this Washington audience that is so used to hearing "I can neither confirm nor deny that information, Senator." With Simon Pegg, Alec Baldwin, and Ving Rhames adding to the mix, Cruise shows he's still a force to be reckoned with. I can't wait for his next mission.