Octane fun

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2019)

The latest instalment in the Mission Impossible franchise follows its impeccable trend to improve with time. Even when it didn't seem possible Rogue Nation out wits itself with a devastating amount of action and intelligent writing. The plot takes many twists and turns, its never difficult to follow yet a 2 hr movie feels like a 4 hr movie, not in a bad way either. It manages to pack such a detailed and analytical story into what could to prove the hollywood movie of 2015. Its smart, sophisticated, the action is brutal and plentiful. It has pretty much everything. It does cut out some of the humour but what it replaces it with is superb, the enemy feels threatening, you feel the magnitude and its oh so satisfying. Once more Tom Cruise is the consistent action hero who only becomes more likeable, he's backed up by brilliant on screen team as they pretty much blow us away. A note also to some sublime shots and editing in the most octane action sequences, they make the unbelievable seem believable and almost through the eyes of Ethan Hunt himself.