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This particular Tommy Cruise movie within the Mission Impossible series was the only one that I hadn't got. So, what did I think of it. Usual plot line but still very enjoyable. The DVD arrived in very good time and at a good price too. Yeah, I would recommend it. David
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION 2015 . ***/**** Of its genre i.e. Action spy/car chases/exotic locations/ ridiculously life-threatening/nay life-destroying conflicts, where our hero walks away unscathed, unsweaty, and wholly pristine, all from the jaws of death and hell, then this does very well indeed. It’s kind of Bond without the sex (and I think leaving out the sex is a bonus). The film opens with the team making a pig’s-ear of a mission to stop a cargo plane full of weapons taking off from Bello-Russia. Enter Ethan Hunt hurtling across the landscape, chasing after a propeller-driven transporter, jumping onto its wing, clinging on by his fingertips until one of his mates eventually opens the right door and he gets in and jettisons the load of weapons and himself. It is all impossibly ridiculous and is setting a tone that actually this isn’t at all serious, and of course there was always a light hearted jokey element about the TV series. Cut to a senate-hearing where the CIA shut down IMF (Impossible Mission Force) why do they change around Impossible Mission??? Just so we confuse it with the International Monetary Fund? Cut to London; Ethan goes into a record (L.P.) store to get instructions for his new mission, but it is a set up. Solomon Lane, a rogue CIA agent, imprisons and tortures Ethan until Ethan is helped to escape by an undercover British agent, Lisa Faust. It is only on his escape that Ethen learns that MI has been shut down. But he wants to find out about Lane's syndicate, and that is what the rest of the very long film (131 mins) is about. The CIA tracks him down to Cuba but he is really in Paris. Then he and one of the team go to the Vienna Staatsoper for a production of Turandot where Ethan almost foils a plot to assassinate the Austrian president. This is a fabulously extended and wholly authentic set piece in the opera house. Cut to Morocco where the team have to get a computer programme, which what the Syndicate is after, and this programme is stored under hig- security underwater turbine tank, where Ethan has to hold his breath for 3 mins and nearly dies. This is all in Morocco and so you have fabulous chases through Marrakesh and then a motor cycle chase up into the Atlas mountains. Now I find chases formulaic and boring, but this one is truly thrilling. Tricks upon tricks! The computer file in encrypted and can only be opened by the English P.M. Somehow Ethan manges to stage this but in the process it is discovered that the file is the key to vast sums of dosh that is there for the set up of covert operations by the English foreign secretary… and this is what Solomon Lane is after. By now Ethan has the CIA on side. A further chase through London where most of the syndicate is dispatched and Ethan manages to trick Lane into custody. The end! Phew! This production is incredibly stylish, wonderful location shots and though old Tom Cruise is 19 years older than the first of this film in this franchise, he manages to carry off the super- hero very well indeed. I have to say this is the most enjoyable MI film I remember and the combination of the great MI theme + Puccini just transported me to heaven.Read full review
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BRILLIANT DVD AS ARE ALL THESE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE FILMS ACTION PACKED AND VERY WELL ACTED
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You either like them or you don't. Better than average , if occasionally unbelievable , thriller series . There are worse ways - and definitely more boring ways - to waste a couple of hours ...🙂👍
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Bought for my son who loves these sort of films Kept him entertained
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