Movie Rating 8 out of 10
Family Rating: Lots of excitement, a couple of swear words, fight scenes
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to leave all logic at the door and enjoy the thrills and spills you have come to expect from an MI movie. Tom Cruise is back in his role as Ethan Hunt and takes up where he left off at the end of the last Mission Impossible episode. Cruise must have sold his soul to the devil because he doesn’t look much older than he did in Risky Business, is as fit as a bull and apparently does a lot of his own stunts. Being four months older than this ‘Peter Pan’ I can tell you he is not the standard for us baby boomers.
Supporting Tom in this follow up to MI Rogue Nation are his old friends, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Rebecca Ferguson and his arch enemy Sean Harris as Solomon Lane. Still trying to save the world from anarchists, Hunt is set the task of recovering the three plutonium cores that he lost in the last film. At the same time, he has to kidnap Lane from police control to use as bargaining power. There is also the usual infighting between IMF and the CIA about who is in charge and who can be trusted.
As is expected there was plenty of action with amazing car and bike chases through the streets of Paris, running over the rooftops of London and a helicopter duel in the river valleys of India. There are twists and turns and you never know until the end who are the goodies and who are the baddies and I am not giving away any spoilers. Henry Cavill plays a CIA agent forced upon the IMF team, and I believe that if he had the courage to drop the Superman role that he could become a decent actor. The other notable newcomer is Vanessa Kirby who plays the White Widow and adds the ‘Bond Girl’ glamour.
If you enjoy going to the movies to be entertained and you can accept that people can come off motorbikes at breakneck speeds and get up without a scratch or a bruise, that you can run and jump from building to building without sweating and then survive a helicopter crash with very little damage then you will really enjoy this show. At well over two hours long make sure you have plenty of snacks and make sure you visit the toilet before the entertainment starts as there are not many slow spots during the movie.