Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) by Armando G — 02 Feb 2016

Over the past several years Tom Cruise has shown a terrific knack for finding directors that are the right creative match his projects, especially for the Mission: Impossible movies. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol was one of my favorite movies of 2011 and I've only grown to love it more since then.

I still think Ghost Protocol is the best of the series, but Rogue Nation is a very, very close second. Rogue Nation is written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie who also directed Cruise in the underappreciated, but excellent, action film Jack Reacher.

McQuarrie and Cruise are a great match and I hope they continue to make movies together. The action set pieces are amazing. In addition to Cruise hanging off the side of a plane as it takes off, there is an incredible and thrilling car chase followed immediately by a motorcycle chase, among other similar scenes which are all very well done.

But Rogue Nation is not just a series of action pieces strung together. The script treats every character, new and returning, as importantly as the action and each is played by more-than-capable actors who turn those characters into believable people that are very good at what they do.

As with Ghost Protocol, I like Rogue Nation more with each viewing.