#Mission impossible 5 rating series#
The p rotagonists‘ dilemmas are quite extreme, the surprises come in all sizes and the ultra-smooth professionalism displayed in all departments early on encourages the sense that you’re in good hands, a feeling that ends up being justified.Īlthough Cruise is now 53, he is very far from being a candidate for the Expendables series anytime soon. The formula of ingredients is familiar and time-tested, to be sure, but some cocktails go down much better than others, and McQuarrie and company have gotten theirs just right here.
Little by little, the Syndicate’s leader, the blandly lizard-like Solomon Lane ( Sean Harris, effectively employing a thin, reedy voice), is forced out into the open if he’s to get what he wants, clearing the way for the ultimate showdown that Ethan has long desired. In the end, however, it comes down to the old spy game - English-style, involving lies, deception, disguises, subterfuge and ( dis)loyalty at very high levels. The second, which is more up Ethan’s (and Cruise’s) usual alley, has him chasing Ilsa - and being chased by the resurgent Syndicate goons - through Casablanca and into the desert on very fast motorcycles driven at very extreme angles. For the first, in order to snatch an all-important computer chip from an underwater source, Ethan trains to hold his breath for three minutes, but in the actual event, must do so for considerably longer. With the CIA believing that Ethan might have been behind this outrage, Brandt slips out of Langley and enlists Ilsa to help track Ethan down before the spooks do.Īll roads lead to Morocco, where again, Ilsa’s loyalties flip-flop in two more high-risk set pieces. He cleverly lures out Benji to help try to thwart a Manchurian Candidate-like political assassination that is spectacularly synched up to a performance of Turandot at the Vienna Opera House. Without any support system, Ethan can still move around the world and elude the CIA, which refuses to acknowledge that The Syndicate even exists. But he’s deepened the dramatic involvement by so thoroughly casting Ethan Hunt to the wolves that he’s a man without a country or a reliable partner - which is why he’s forced to believe that Ilsa will stand with him at the end of the day despite much circumstantial evidence to the contrary. McQuarrie doesn’t change the prescription for what makes this franchise so successful, nor does he have the most practiced hand among the series’ directors at milking the big action sequences for all they’re worth.
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