In the wake of another exploit that attracts the CIA’s attention, the IMF (Impossible Mission Force) is dissolved by the American government, which is worried about the team’s unorthodox methods. Actively hunted by his own country, Ethan Hunt decides to go after the mysterious Syndicate, which is sowing chaos around the world. Helped by Benjin Dunn, William Brandt, Luther Stickell and a new team member, British agent Ilsa Faust, who has loyalty issues, Hunt goes after the man behind the terrorist organization…

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New mission, new director, same challenge. The screenwriter of Valkyrie and Edge of Tomorrow and the director of Jack Reacher, Christopher McQuarrie (who had a long dry spell after his Oscar win for Best Screenplay for The Usual Suspects in 1996) rejoins his star Tom Cruise for another outing in the popular franchise. Far from the initial episodes of the saga, which has seen the good (Brian de Palma’s excellent franchise debut) and the awful (the sequel by John Woo), the fifth in the series takes the same path as Ghost Protocol: cooler, more spectacular, funnier, more modern, but also more ordinary. The program follows a set big-budget track for summer movies, with plot as an accessory and a bad guy that’s there only to set up a handful of amazing stunts – a wild plane take-off, a suspenseful opera, an extreme dive. Rogue Nation confirms that the formula won’t be changing at all anytime soon and is really only there to push the limits of imagination and good sense as far as action is concerned. All at the expense of a gallery of ridiculous and dumb secondary characters, saved this time only by Rebecca Ferguson, who is excellent in one of the best female roles of the entire franchise.