Finished watching Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruse, Simon Pegg, Sean Harris, Jens Hultén, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin and Ving Rhames. The film opens up with IMF agents Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruse) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) on a mission to stop the shipment of nerve gas. The film then changes location to London as Ethan heads to a record store to get his new orders only to be captured by Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) the head of the Syndicate, a criminal organisation that Ethan has been tracking since the end of the previous film. After awaking inside a secure room tied up ready to be interrogated by Janik Vinter (Jens Hultén) only for one of the Syndicate's agents, Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) to help Ethan escape from his captors. Once Ethan gets into contact with fellow agent William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) to update him about what has happened only to find out that the IMF has been taken over by the CIA causing Ethan to go rogue. After six months underground and being constantly pursued by the CIA and its director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) Ethan brings Benji in to help him against the Syndicate. Overall this was a great film as it keeps what made the franchise great in the first place and builds upon it. The action choreography is executed extremely well throughout the film. The chase scene is one of the highlights of the film as it has some great interactions between Ethan and Benji as well as William and Luther (Ving Rhames), while the camerawork within the motorbike part of the chase helps keep the tension of the scene by using point of view shots of Ethan's perspective and the use of chase. While the character of Benji brings some great comedic moments expressly with the heist planning as there's an almost daydream like scene where Benji is going through a possible way to tackle the mission which involves the classic face masks only for Ethan to break it apart. One thing that lets the film down is the state of flux of where Ilsa's loyalty lies as throughout the film she goes form saving Ethan to manipulating him and her background changers from being a MI6 agent to an outcast. 8/10.
Friday 7 August 2015
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Film Review
Finished watching Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruse, Simon Pegg, Sean Harris, Jens Hultén, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin and Ving Rhames. The film opens up with IMF agents Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruse) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) on a mission to stop the shipment of nerve gas. The film then changes location to London as Ethan heads to a record store to get his new orders only to be captured by Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) the head of the Syndicate, a criminal organisation that Ethan has been tracking since the end of the previous film. After awaking inside a secure room tied up ready to be interrogated by Janik Vinter (Jens Hultén) only for one of the Syndicate's agents, Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) to help Ethan escape from his captors. Once Ethan gets into contact with fellow agent William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) to update him about what has happened only to find out that the IMF has been taken over by the CIA causing Ethan to go rogue. After six months underground and being constantly pursued by the CIA and its director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) Ethan brings Benji in to help him against the Syndicate. Overall this was a great film as it keeps what made the franchise great in the first place and builds upon it. The action choreography is executed extremely well throughout the film. The chase scene is one of the highlights of the film as it has some great interactions between Ethan and Benji as well as William and Luther (Ving Rhames), while the camerawork within the motorbike part of the chase helps keep the tension of the scene by using point of view shots of Ethan's perspective and the use of chase. While the character of Benji brings some great comedic moments expressly with the heist planning as there's an almost daydream like scene where Benji is going through a possible way to tackle the mission which involves the classic face masks only for Ethan to break it apart. One thing that lets the film down is the state of flux of where Ilsa's loyalty lies as throughout the film she goes form saving Ethan to manipulating him and her background changers from being a MI6 agent to an outcast. 8/10.
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