Mission Impossible is in an interesting position, it somewhat exists in its own little world. Rebecca Ferguson is an absolute stunner and a more than welcome addition to the franchise. The film's casting is also really strong and there's great interplay between them all. It still felt a little anticlimactic given everything we had seen prior to that, but I get the reasoning behind that. Then again, this villain was more of an 'intellectual' as opposed to someone who could hold his own in a fight, so maybe they felt that outsmarting him was the most apropos way to take him down. Don't get me wrong, it's satisfying to finally see the IMF take down the man that has bested them at almost every turn, but to do so with the ease they did sort of took something away from that satisfaction. So, unfortunately, because of that, the climax itself ends up feeling anticlimactic.
The highlights include a pretty damn cool scene at the Vienna Opera House, the car chase in Morocco, the underwater sequence where Ethan has to switch security profiles.
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And the latter is really where the movie shines. A terrorist creating havoc around the world manipulates the IMF and British Intelligence to do his doing, there's globetrotting, cool spy gadgets, exciting action sequences. The narrative itself isn't anything to write home about.
As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's not that it plays to the genres tropes and cliches, but it does what it does so well that it doesn't really need to reinvent the wheel with its story or its approach. Perhaps that's the wrong term to use, because it's not like these films have reinvented the espionage genre, far from it. Not that it's the best popcorn movie I've ever seen, but there's no denying that the Mission Impossible franchise, ever since Christopher McQuarrie has taken over the creative helm, has seen a creative resurgence with both Ghost Protocol and this movie. When you talk about popcorn entertainment at the movies, this is the picture that I imagine in my mind. But that's really irrelevant in the long run, because what matters is that this movie is an absolute blast to watch. So that was strange, even though in this film it's, ultimately, revealed to be part of a set-up, but it was still strange to see the film pretty much do the same thing at the beginning as the previous film in the franchise. The IMF is shut down, essentially, in both movies. We then see Benji getting out of a subway train, making his way through the station to eventually reach the Staatsoper.I don't remember much of Ghost Protocol, the previous film in the MI franchise, but looking back at its description on this site, starts off with a very similar premise. These last around 20 minutes, and begin with an aerial view of the city’s old town at night – you can spot Stephansdom cathedral bottom left in the picture. The 5th installment in the MI franchise stars Tom Cruise as agent Ethan Hunt, Simon Pegg as his able colleague Benji Dunn, and Rebecca Ferguson as the mysterious British agent Ilsa Faust.Īll three appear in the Vienna scenes. (The opera house has enjoyed cameo roles in a few other movies, too. They even held the movie’s world premiere there. Though, to be fair, plenty of people suffer dramatic endings, commonly after a heartfelt aria that goes on for a suspiciously long time given the alleged condition of the singer.Īnd yet the magnificent Vienna State Opera (Staatsoper) played a major role in one of 2015’s biggest action movies: Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation. Opera is rarely noted for its gunfights and action sequences.
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