Disclosure: This is a sponsored post on behalf of SocialMoms and Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. Opinions about the movie are 100% my own.
Having seen every one of the Mission: Impossible movies, I have been looking forward to seeing the fifth installment Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation.
In Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, the IMF has been disbanded, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is out in the cold and his team now faces off against a network of highly skilled special agents, the Syndicate. These highly trained operatives are hellbent on creating a new world order through an escalating series of terrorist attacks. Ethan gathers his team and joins forces with disavowed British agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), who may or may not be a member of this rogue nation, as the group faces their most impossible mission yet.
6 Reasons Why Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Rocks
1. Tom Cruise actually does his own stunts – It’s hard to miss the poster of Tom Cruise hanging off the plane but yes, that is actually him doing his own stunts. That’s right, there is no stunt double for the plane scene. What makes seeing Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation all the more exciting is knowing Tom Cruise did the stunts himself and that there are no cutaway scenes to a stunt double like in other action films. It is really wild to watch the action and the realism of the scenes. The stunts alone worth the price of admission because they are unique. This is what movie making is all about.
2. Comic Relief – Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation would be pretty boring without some comic relief from Simon Pegg (Benji.) Simon Pegg’s Benji is the perfect IT foil to super agent Ethan Hunt.
3. Alec Baldwin – What a surprise to find Alec Baldwin starring as CIA chief Alan Hunley. His character is hilariously at wits end looking for Hunt. I think there is a bit of his Jack Donaghy character showing in his performance and that is a good thing.
4. Tom Cruise – As I mentioned, I have seen every Mission: Impossible. Tom Cruise makes these movies worth seeing. He always brings his “A game” to the role of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt.
5. Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust – I have no idea where she came from but as the only woman in the film, she more than carries her own in the action scenes and she can act.
6. The Stunts – Yes, you have seen the trailer and the poster of Tom Cruise hanging off the plane but there other stunts that defy belief much like climbing the Burj Khalifa in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, you will sit in awe with your mouth open and your heart racing throughout those scenes.
7. Exotic Locations – Movies are supposed to take you away to foreign places that you may never visit. From Belarus to Vienna to Casablanca to London with quick stopovers in Malaysia, Paris and Havana, this is a travel log of locations. What I like about it is that it brings a sense of realism to the movie, no green screen or studio locations. Watching the movie, you know they were actually jumping from the Vienna opera house not a Hollywood back lot. And for younger moviegoers, it’s very subtle geography lesson. Seriously, how many kids know where or what Belarus is.
Maybe I am not going to be hanging from a plane anytime soon or doing any death defying stunts ala Ethan Hunt but that doesn’t mean I am don’t have any #Mompossible Skills.
As an adoptive single mom, I have had to be both mom and dad to my daughter. I look back on all the activities I have taken part over the years from playing dress up (not my strong suit); or running the bases teaching my daughter baseball, or those sliding all those slides in every playground in New York City, those are #Mompossible Skills I am most proud of. Watching Tom Cruise give his all in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation racing through the streets of Morocco, it gives me the impetus to add riding roller coasters (something I truly afraid of doing) #Mompossible Skills this Fall when my daughter and I head to Disney World.
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Trailer
Do I recommend this movie? Above all else, this is what summer action movies are all about, thoroughly entertaining, sitting on the edge of your seat and popcorn munching film so Yes this is a must see movie.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Is to not miss seeing Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation!!
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation opens in a theater near you Friday July 31st!
Get tickets at Fandango.
Jane says
Loved this movie.