Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner,
Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin,
Rating: 9 out of 10, This is the best
in the series with a well-constructed, intelligent plot and subtle humor poking
fun at some of the earlier installments that doesn’t take away from the story.
The IMF force is under attack from Washington bureaucrats as well as a mysterious
crime organization that always seems one step ahead. The series is justifiably
famous for daring stunt work but this film takes them to an entirely new level.
Cruise starts the movie out riding on the outside of a cargo plane during
takeoff and it’s obvious that he did the work and wasn’t CGI’d in. This is the
first of many stunt sequences that shatter the jaw dropping barrier and even a
jaded movie goer such as myself was left in awe. You go into one of these
expecting to be dazzled but they go well beyond that. The real revelation
though was the female lead, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa. She was every bit the
match for Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and was the reason this movie is clearly the best
of the entire series and one of the best I’ve seen all year.
MVP: Ferguson as Ilsa, clearly the
best cohort in the entire series so far
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