Mission Impossible Rouge Nation review

 
  First off sorry about the hiatus last week I was in California for my Summer vacation. I'm being serious I was in California for the last week or so, which is why I haven't been able to update the blog and I'm getting ready to go to my grandparents house due to other events so this week so I won't be near a computer for a while so I'm calling a hiatus from my normal schedule but so that way I don't leave you guys without anything for another week this week your getting three movie reviews (Trainwreck, Rouge Nation and Ant-man.) Today will be Rouge Nation.

   Anyway last Sunday I saw the latest installment in Mission Impossible franchise Rouge Nation. In this movie Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is investigating a mysterious international crime syndicate known as... The Syndicate. However recently the IMF has been shut down due the amount of dangerous stunts, innocent lives lost and unnecessary damage that has been caused (mainly by Ethan) and so Ethan goes rouge so now while trying to investigate The Syndicate he also has to evade the CIA who want to capture him and he's going to need the help of his friends William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickwell (Ving Rhames) and the Femme Fatal double Agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson.)


   Going in I was very excited, I've always been a fan of the mission impossible series even more so than the Bond Franchise. I liked Mission Impossible I and II, I love Mission Impossible III and liked Ghost Protocal. I got even more excited when I saw the reviews for this movie and people were praising it calling it the best action movie of the summer and how it was more exciting than the last. I was pumped for this movie! Then... I saw the movie and was thoroughly disappointed with it.

  Mission Impossible Rouge Nation to me was a boring, rehash of Ghost protocol that attempts for great things yet never follows through with them with boring main characters and a super anti-climatic ending. I know I'm going to get a lot of heat for this especially considering how almost universally acclaimed this movie has been so far (I'm getting deep flashbacks to my X-men Days of future past review.) But this is my review and thus my opinion and this is how I feel.

  Before I go into the negatives I will go into the positives because while I was overall disappointed with the movie that doesn't mean that they're weren't some things I liked. First off the movie is extremely funny and the comedy is clever without being overbearing or distracting from the plot, the best jokes are given to Simon Pegg who is basically the heart of the movie. Speaking of Simon Pegg he, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames do a great job in their roles with Simon Pegg stealing the show, Ving Rhames acting as a great straight man and Jeremy Renner being a great counter-balance to Tom Cruise. All of them add a lot of dimension and color to very standard characters and are great to watch. The villain was well acted and Sean Harris did a good job with what little he was given.

   On a technical level the cinematography is a highlight of the film with good angles, great shots of different action scenes and the choreography for all said action scenes are done well. Probably the best action sequences in the movie where Ethan swimming and holding his breath while trying to turn off an electrical system and the knife fight Ilsa has at the end of the movie. Both those sequences were the best because unlike the rest of the movie both scenes had a lot of suspense, tension and a realness to them that the other scenes didn't have.

   Now to the bad.

   To me this movie was actually kind of boring. Besides the two actions scenes I mentioned the action scenes were subpar or kind of forgettable. The plane sequence was shown so much in the trailers that it lost a lot of it's excitement and it was really short and it had nothing really to do with the rest of the movie so it was pointless. The motorcycle sequence was the same nothing really wowing, the opera fight had potential but didn't really do anything until the end and the other action scenes I can barely remember. Nothing really happens at the end of the movie and it kind of ends on a weak note, they try to do something clever but that doesn't work that well because you forget why it's supposed to be clever.

   Now while I liked everyone else in the movie the two people who I didn't like were the two leads Ethan Hunt and Ilsa Faust. Ethan Hunt has always been my least favorite part of these movies, I always found him just another boring generic action hero and the most interesting I've ever found him in was Mission Impossible III. They try to make him interesting in this film with saying that his methods are not the best and he ends hurting more people than helping them and might even be slightly insane at this point but like Ghost Protocol any potential character development with him is negated. Ilsa Faust has little to no personality other than being a badass femme fatal and like Ethan they try to make her interesting yet they never go anywhere with it and I had no clue how by the end of the movie she came to like Ethan romantically. 

   The last but biggest problem with this movie is how it under develops it's plot and villain. The plot is basically Ghost Protocol and the first movie smashed into one with the IMF being dissolved (Ghost Protocol) and Ethan going on the run (Mission impossible I) but they try to add a corrupt government plot and what they can do to the people working for them but the thing is they never go all the way with it and it doesn't get fully developed. You don't have to have a theme or message in your movie but if you do you better go all the way with it because the moment you touch on a good idea and don't do anything with it, it might as well have never been in the movie in the first place. On that same note while I like Sean Harris as the villain, his characters is never given any development and when certain things about him are mentioned they are so vague that it leaves you wanting more but not in a good way.

   Mission Impossible Rouge Nation is not necessarily the worst movie of the year but to me it's a disappointing one. I do hope another one comes out because I do not want this to be the last one in the series and the send off to Tom Cruise.

I give this movie a 6.5/10~ A movie with a lot of potential, laughs and good actors and side characters that misses the mark and wastes a lot of it's potential.

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