Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) by Viniciusbrito — 03 Aug 2018

The Missio Impossible franchise achieves it's fifth movie. Our hero now is facing a terrorist organization named Syndicate, but this time the villain is always ahead of Ethan Hunt in what he do, so he never catches him. That makes the CIA thinks that Ethan is mad and the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) is outdated and needs to be closed. So both CIA and the terrorists will eventually wants Ethan. So our main guy and his team will do their best to eradicate the Syndicate. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

The main problem with almost all the other mission impossible movie was it's story, in this one it isn't much different, but I gotta say that it is much better compared to the others, I got engaged in the unroll of what was happpening. Of course that it is still needed a lot of suspension of disbelief in some moments, there are somethings that just don't make sense and is essential to make the plot flow, is needed to get away with it, but the cern leading aspects of the story are very nice, it does brough back a little of what the first one had. The aspect of having double agents or even a triple agent is really intriguing, you don't get to be sure in what side someone is what we had in the first one that we kind of lost during the franchis but now is back, and that is a very nice aspect. Considering that this is the fifth movie and 19 years after the first one come out, we have a lot of lore of this movies, and the director new it and didn't waste time to refer a lot of the others, even in a little dialogue or even in a whole sequence, that didn't bothered me, it was together with the narrative and was nice. The finally moments of the movie are exactly like other one, depend on you if you think this as a nice reference or a creative problem during the course of the movie. It does have a lot of cliches, but the director worked well with those. The chemistry between all the old characters worked very well, incluiding the new one with Ilsa, she with Ethan was very organic. The villain isn't bad, but maybe a little more of motivation, explanation in what he was doing would have been very welcome.

The acting one more time was pretty good. Tom Cruise of course doing a great job, mainly because of his actions, that he delivery perfectly, and also giving to us a completely different Ethan, an evolved one that doesn't waste time with smiles and stuff, it is really nice to see the character evolving. Rebecca Ferguson is by far the best action company that Tom has had during all of these movies, she is perfect as a multiple agent spy, and also have that look of regret in some moments, or that confident one, she was great. Simon Pegg was one more time a comic relief with a lot of functional and crucial moments to the plot, he is always very funny and here he keeped that tone and definely did a great job, he also had some dramatic little moments that were very functional. Jeremy Renner didn't had much to do, but he worked very well, always good to have good actors doing support parts, help the movie to keep stable. Ving Rhames is back as a needed in a crucial part, he can maintain the character characteristics since the first one, he was very nice. Sean Harris is the main villain here, and I gotta say that he killed it, he totally convinced me that he is a psycho with that calm voice, saying "please" all the time, he was terrifyng.

The action scenes are wonderful, the main reason is that we don't have much cgi or green screen, things are actually real, and that makes a total diference, I could feel the place and everything that was there. I gottaa say that the best action sequence of the franchise isn't in this one, but in general, talking about the whole movie, it is the one with the best amount of action, all of them worked, some of them got me worried about the situation, putting our main guy in a extreme situation with that level of realism is always a memorable part.

The soundtrack worked, it helped to give context the tension in some scenes. The main theme is still very dope, even that in this one it didn't had any peculiarity. And one more time it have that very important part, without cgi, without green screen and without doubles, things are real, and one more time Tom Cruise was brilliant, he is definely one of the few actors that make real stuff.

The cinematography is very beautiful, the movie takes place in several countries, and it maked visually have a lot of diversity here, different places in different moments, that was very nice.

This movie is great, the realism and the action are all memorable, the story is very good, there are some cliches and things that are out of place, but if you relieve this, it will surely be a very good time.