Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Trailer is Trying to Kill Tom Cruise ~ Cinenus

Thursday, 4 June 2015

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Trailer is Trying to Kill Tom Cruise

It seems like Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Rogue-ocol?) is out to get Tom Cruise. It sends him into a death pool with no oxygen tank, tosses him into a high speed motorcycle chase, flings him and Simon Pegg in a backward car at the Koutoubia Mosque, and then refuses to open an aircraft door for him so he can be on the right side of it as it takes off.

Yes, the stunts look insane. Which is pretty much what they have to be in a world dominated by bigger and crazier and more furious.

The question that the boilerplate trailer can’t answer is whether the rest of the movie will be any good. Alec Baldwin (playing either the head of the CIA or, I assume, himself) demands that the Impossible Missions Force be shut down, there’s a well-funded global terrorist group to battle, and Ethan Hunt’s crew are in for the most difficult challenge of their careers. All par for the course. So, when anticipating quality, we only have our deep trust in writer/director Christopher McQuarrie. Hopefully the leader of the Rogue Nation turns out to be Keyser Soze.

This franchise is one of the few modern action series that’s proven itself worthy of lasting past a third and fourth film. What’s interesting is that the other main example of that endurance, Fast and the Furious, has ultimately become a series of Mission: Impossible style movies complete with the globe-hopping crew with a questionable relationship to law enforcement. They could easily be spin-off movies focused on family (and jumping Superman style out of a speeding car).

Rogue Nation is in theaters July 31st, but Paramount is reportedly already developing the next outing — a sixth movie that would see Ethan Hunt replacing his own hip so that Tom Cruise can continue to do his own stunts.

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