From the scribe of The Usual Suspects comes one of Mission Impossible's finest.

Rating: 9/10 (4 September 2018)

Rogue Nation is an endlessly amusing spy-fi flick from America's equivalent to the James Bond franchise. Mission Impossible has always managed to show entertaining international capers that defy real-world logic but not to the detriment of the final product. Tom Cruise reprises his iconic Super-Spy in Ethan Hunt and he's still an all-American master of espionage and saving the world from anarchy: which this guy basically eats for breakfast.
Ethan Hunt has to save the world once again, this time from former MI6-agent-turned-terrorist, Solomon Lane. This time Ethan will need the help of a part-time hero and part-time villainess in Ilsa Faust: a spiritual Bond-girl who leaves many of the real and recently seen Bind-girls to shame. This film delivers the seamless action-thriller experience and story that James Bond's Spectre failed to deliver (at least in comparison to that series' masterful predecessor Skyfall), and I reckon it's great that there are two great franchises in the spy-fi field that have basically become equals in the entertainment industry: Mission Impossible and James Bond. Rogue Nation shows that the Mission Impossible series still has many action-packed stories to tell through Ethan Hunt.
Rogue Nation shows that the franchise still has boat-loads of cinematic fun left to have and it's only going to get bigger and bigger. Thankfully that proved to be the case with this film's sequel: Mission Impossible: Fallout. However, Rogue Nation is perfectly self-contained entertainment in and of itself anyway. Give this one a shot: it's action-adventure ecstasy in its purest form.
Rogue Nation gets a rock-solid 4.5/5 stars.