You’re watching Beyond The Trailer’s review of Captain America The Winter Soldier! Oh, wait,
Spectre..? No?! Oh yeah, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation!
So how impossible can Ethan Hunt’s new mission be if Captain America and James Bond have
the same one...? I mean sure, Shakespeare said there’s nothing new under the sun,
but I doubt that as many plays were being written back then as movies are being produced
today. And even beyond the evil organization plot, 2015 is chock full of spy movies in
GENERAL! Kingsman The Secret Service, Spy, The Man from UNCLE, Spectre and Mission Impossible
Rogue Nation. Then there’s the title, which is echoed in the X-Men Days of Future Past
Rogue Cut as well as the upcoming Star Wars spin-off Rogue One. In fact, Paramount had
to ask Disney not to discuss Rogue One too much until their movie was released. So...how
IS Mission Impossible Rogue Nation supposed to stand out from the crowd? STUNTS! And not
just any stunts, but REAL stunts performed by a REAL movie star! That publicity tactic
worked pretty well for Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, so now with this fifth film
they’ve pretty much based the entire ad campaign around Tom Cruise actually strapping
himself to the outside of an airplane that actually took off and flew around a bit. Now
for those of you who are like “uh, and why couldn’t you use a greenscreen? I mean,
it’s not like Cruise has blond hair...” - well, then how about the talent involved?
Cruise reteams with his Jack Reacher writer-director here, Christopher McQuarrie, and that movie
was surprisingly good. Imagine what they can do with a much bigger budget... Not to mention
Alec Baldwin joins the party, while Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg return. And sure, Pegg said
blockbuster movies were infantile, but he wasn’t talking about THIS movie..!
So, is Mission Impossible Rogue Nation one of the better Tom Cruise movies?
Because come on,
is there really such a thing as a BAD Tom Cruise movie...?