Category: Mission Impossible

Principal Cast : Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Monaghan, Vanessa Kirby, Frederick Schmidt, Wes Bentley. Synopsis:  Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission goes wrong. **** Note: Some spoilers within. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read on anyways…. The longer it has progressed, the more dangerous and thrill-seeking the Mission Impossible franchise has become. Star Tom Cruise, now approaching his late-50’s and looking as fit…

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Principal Cast :  Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Simon McBurney, Zhang Jingchu, America Olivio, Jens Hulten, Tom Hollander. Synopsis:  Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organisation as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. ********** Goin’ rogue. It’s rare these days that a franchise of sequels actually improves with each new instalment; aside from The Fast & The Furious, how many other recurring film series’ have gone…

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Slick, technically proficient Hollywood hocus-pocuys delivers thrills aplenty, as Cruise, Hoffman and director JJ Abrams reinvigorate a floundering franchise with this energetic romp. Nice to spot Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul as a (very) minor character (guess we all have to start somewhere) and to see Michelle Monaghan take it to Cruise in the acting department. A ripper.

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Like being trapped in an elevator with somebody suffering from UBS, Mission: Impossible II rankles the nose and offends the spirit. Bereft of coherent logic, devoid of passion, and brimming with pompous, gargantuan action that means little, this sequel to DePalma’s sl0w-burn success is borderline unwatchable. If you removed the copious slow-motion in this thing, you’d have a 30 minute travelogue of Australia.

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Tense, exciting spy thriller has Tom Cruise in top gear as a superspy, much like James Bond only without the sexy-suave attitude, and although the film plods through some minor talky moments, has more than enough twists and turns to keep this genre fan happy.

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Terrific, labyrinthine thriller plays more like a Bond film than any Mission Impossible film we’ve seen to-date, Ghost Protocol might just be the most intelligent of the four entries into the franchise thus far. Cruise plays himself once again, and he’s ably assisted by a terrific cast all delivering the goods in their supporting roles. Brad Bird helms the film like he’s been doing it forever, with plenty of thrills, spills and spy-game activities to keep the John Woo fans at bay once again. A terrific film: most definitely worth your while.

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