A Movie Review. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. This movie starts off with a bang as IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) prevents the transportation of nerve gas via an airplane. The movie then dives into a complex, but well laid out intrigue regarding the Syndicate, a non-nation entity similar to the IMF but out for no good. Uncovering the Syndicate has to be done via rogue means as CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) is able to get a Senate committee to disband the IMF and place it under CIA control. We get to see Ethan Hunt ultimately fail to save the Austrian Chancellor, deal with some water challenges in Morocco and uncover secrets in the UK.

What I really loved about this movie was the simplicity of the complex plot. To me, a big problem with some action movies is that they make the plot complex and yet spend no time trying to make sure that the movie goer can follow the plot. I think this movie accomplishes the feat of allowing the audience to follow along just perfectly.

A couple of my minor problems with this movie:

I know Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) likes his leather jacket, but who wears a jacket in the humid climate of Malaysia?

Seriously, you have trained operatives of the Syndicate with machine guns unable to kill Ethan Hunt as he's running through a narrow corridor? Somehow their bullets hit the two walls. Can't shoot straight?