A Mission to Acquire a Deadly Super-Virus and It's Antidote

Rating: 6/10 (2 February 2017)

When a suspected super-virus called "Chimera" and its antidote "Bellerophon" is stolen by a ruthless former IMF agent by the name of "Sean Ambrose" (Dougray Scott), "Ethan Hunt" (Tom Cruise) is called upon to acquire both of these products and bring them back to his supervisor "Commander Swanbeck" (Anthony Hopkins). To do that he is tasked with recruiting a former girlfriend of Sean's by the name of "Nyah Nordoff-Hall" (Thandie Newton) who is also an international thief. What they don't realize is that Sean doesn't actually have the virus and plans to manipulate the IMF to accomplish the task for him and considers everyone involved to be completely expendable. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film had a complicated plot which was convoluted by numerous action scenes thrown in for good measure. As a result the overall film suffered accordingly. That being said, while the movie was still entertaining to a degree, it could have been better and for that reason I have rated it as just slightly above average.