Okay so the plot doesn’t
really matter here and I don’t know if I could actually explain it, it’s overly
complicated with double-crossing and face-pulling-off happening left, right and
centre, but that’s okay, these films were always about action set pieces, and
there were two good ones here, one at the opera as Ethan Hunt has to thwart an
assassination attempt and another where he has to swim underwater without an
oxygen tank and do a thing with a computer so Simon Pegg can break in to
somewhere without an alarm going off. The problem is that these both happen too quickly and there’s an hour of boredom thereafter.
To be honest I don’t know why I had such high expectations for this movie, I guess because I heard Simon Pegg’s in it a little more, and I do like Tom Cruise. But there is so much fun you could have with these movies. It’s kinda like Antman where you have comedic actors - here Simon Pegg and Alex Baldwin - but they don't really have many jokes. It’s not enough to just have them in the movie. A whoopee cushion isn’t inherently funny; you have to sit on it. Give them something funny to say! Compare this to Guardians of The Galaxy which is packed with comedic actors; Chris Pratt, Peter Serafinowicz, John C Reiley, Bradley Cooper, only GoTG remembered to be funny and not throw shit loads of plot at us, plus it’s obvious who the good guys and bad guys are. MI Rogue Nation couldn’t decide whether it was a serious spy movie with double agents and international terrorism or a lighthearted buddy action movie with Simon Pegg and clarinet rifles. I’m giving it a hard time, but only because I think they could make a great Mission Impossible with the ingredients they have. This isn’t it. It's not terrible, just very average, and a little long.
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