Mission: Average

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

Written & directed by Christopher McQuarrie this 5^th film in the franchise stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson. IMF agent Ethan Hunt returns looking for a spy organisation that no one believes exists while his own organisation is shut down.

While this is a perfectly serviceable entry into the franchise it is not much more than a reworking of familiar elements from previous films and the spy genre as a whole. Entertaining through out there is not really substance beyond the action sequences. Simon Pegg is about the only one that shows any real personality in the film while everyone else goes through the motions.

3/5