Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating
the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as
they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Director:
Christopher McQuarrieStoryline
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin) convinces a Senate committee to disband the
IMF (Impossible Mission Force), of which Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a key
member. Hunley argues that the IMF is too reckless. Now on his own, Hunt
goes after a shadowy and deadly rogue organization called the
Syndicate.
User Reviews
Here we go again... again
I remember when I first
saw this film in theaters and the lights dimmed the first thought that
ran through my head was "Here we go again" as I released an involuntary
sigh of apathy. Somewhere along the line, before seeing this latest
installment, I had decided to re-watch the original four films and
realized that the character of Ethan Hunt really has no defining
characteristics beyond just basically being Tom Cruise. This bothered me
for some reason. Jason Bourne was a fully fleshed out character and
even the new Bond films had added newer elements to give a traditionally
stereotypical character more depth and complexity, but Ethan Hunt is
just...bland. He has no personality. What seemed even stranger to me was
the fact that Mission Impossible was supposed to revolve around a team,
yet Tom Cruise is seemingly always the only one who ever does anything.
So basically these films boil down to watching Tom Cruise perform his
own stunts, which I will admit are extremely impressive, especially in
this latest escapade. However the plots of all five films are basically
nonsense to try and connect each elaborate stunt to the next. Then I
realized that all 5 films have remarkably similar story lines as well.
Tom Cruise has a mission, something goes wrong, he goes rouge, needs to
find some kind of MacGuffin, the villain is some kind of terrorist arms
dealer, insert random forgettable love interest here, big stunts, the
end.
that being said, the film's action scenes are amazing, and really make you question the sanity of Cruise, who needlessly continues to insist on doing all of his stunts. Basically it's another Tom Cruise Hollywood blockbuster, which at the end of the day made me finally realize, "Why was I ever expecting anything else in the first place?"
that being said, the film's action scenes are amazing, and really make you question the sanity of Cruise, who needlessly continues to insist on doing all of his stunts. Basically it's another Tom Cruise Hollywood blockbuster, which at the end of the day made me finally realize, "Why was I ever expecting anything else in the first place?"