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    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

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    This not a movie I would've lined up for, nor wait for its release with baited breath or am I declared fan of the MI franchise.

    Tom Cruise is a movie star, but he's earned that. Cruise can act, but although his choices don't always show it, he has a nose for realizing a story.

    This is a cracker of a show. Well made, exceptionally good casting and about perfect pacing.

    It's an entertainment, fully includes you in its pursuits, and positions every character where they ought to be, and amplifies their most critical moments.

    That's its trick, and what so many other action films miss. This movie is abundantly generous, and it doesn't talk through you, or down to you.

    Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin are good, Simon Pegg apes a bit, but it's OK. Ving Rhames smooth as concrete. Tom Hollander, Simon McBurney as usual, A1. Sean Harris has his cool psychotic down.

    Like other contributors say, Rebecca Ferguson really centres the film.

    You have to like her, see desirability, vulnerability and admire her chops, or the film lags. She could have quite a career, if she chooses, another of the Scandinavian nurtured actors rising to the fore.

    Cruise himself, a total pro, doing high end work, put much on the line to make Rogue Nation work.

    Fun, clean spoken, vivid, ripping with action, well written, fine role playing and worth a 2 hours of anybodies time. High 8, maybe even... OK a 9.05.

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    asgilbert@  30.8.2015 age: 50+ 177 reviews

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