Death Defying MISSION =edge of your seat thrills!

 After Brad Bird breathed new life into the MISSION:IMPOSSILE movies with GHOST PROTOCOL, I thought it would be IMPOSSIBLE to ever top it. Of course, with the success of GHOST PROTOCOL, we all knew that Cruise and Paramount would be foolish not to attempt a fifth entry. But once again, Cruise rolled the dice and has come up a winner with ROUGE NATION, the fifth MI film.
 This time out Cruise enlisted the help of writer/director Christopher McQuarrie to continue the momentum flowing after GHOST PROTOCAL and I am happy to say they have succeeded.
  The plot of the movie? Well, McQuarrie has crafted a masterful thriller in ROUGE NATION, having IMF shut down by the CIA and making Ethan Hunt a fugitive. He's also the target of an anti IMF group that wants to use Hunt and kill him afterwards. Hunt's mission? Stay one step ahead of the CIA and find out who the mystery man is that runs the rogue assassin group that's out to put an end to him and the world as we know it.
  ROGUE NATION is filled with action set pieces that are sure to raise your blood pressure and adrenaline for the entire 2 hours and 12 minutes. The best sequence for me was the Opera sequence. I about fell out of my seat.
  Then there is the cast lead by Cruise as Ethan Hunt and reunited with Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames as Hunt's fellow IMF team. This time out, Rebecca Ferguson steps into the female role as British agent Ilsa Faust. Her performance as a kick butt double agent is one of the highlight's of the film.
 Two things stand out in my mind after watching this film.
 1) Tom Cruise needs to stop doing his own stunts. He is going to die one day doing his own stunts. It's wonderful and all that he is so invested in the film and wants to do his own stunts. I get that. It brings a level of suspense to the film knowing that it's not a stunt man hanging off the side of an airplane, but Tom Cruise himself. I was thinking he was going to die the whole time. I guess that's the point. But I for one like Tom Cruise and don't want to see himself get injured doing these death defying stunts.
2) This film series keeps getting better with each entry. Generally, by the time you get to the fifth movie, the film series is reduced to a pile of steaming crap. That is not the case with MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE-ROGUE NATION.
  Tom Cruise is an excellent producer and knows talented writer/directors when he sees them. Christopher McQuarrie is such a writer/director and he is the reason why this film works a fifth time around.
 I give the film an A-. Check it out, but please bring a defibrillator with you to the theater. You might need it.