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MOVIES
Accomplished action
Denton
Time
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Cruise satisfies
in latest mission
By Jocelyn Noveck
AP National Writer
There’s some interesting talk
in the cleverly satisfying script of
Mission: Impossible — Rogue
Nation about the element of
luck.
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As in: How much is luck a
factor in the success of Ethan
Hunt and his Impossible Missi-
ons Force cohorts? After all, in
the last movie they merely saved
us from a nuclear holocaust.
Was it talent, work or dumb
luck?
Whatever you decide about
that, let’s be clear about this:
When it comes to Tom Cruise
and his durability as an action
hero, luck has little to do with it.
The guy’s an action star extraor-
dinaire, and it’s not luck or
chance but work and smarts and
yes, some swashbuckling der-
ring-do that get him there.
Whatever you may think of
Cruise and his complex off-
screen persona, let’s give him
this: At age 53, he and his Ethan
Hunt are getting more fun to
watch.
And they make Rogue Na-
tion not merely a serviceable
summer flick, but an entertain-
ment well worth the ticket price.
Let’s give kudos to a few oth-
er folks, too. Director-writer
Christopher McQuarrie, like
each director in the franchise,
puts his own stamp on the pro-
ceedings. McQuarrie (The Usu-
al Suspects) does this with both
awry scriptthat often makes fun
of what’s happening, and some
seriously entertaining action
pieces.
Also invaluable is franchise
vet Simon Pegg as Benji, the
wisecracking (and safe-eracking)
Paramount Pictures/Skydance Productions
lisa (Rebecca Ferguson, left) has a tendency to save the life of IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in “Mission: Impossible —
Rogue Nation.”
on the wing of an airborne jet,
and then — why not? — lets his
legs slip, hanging on by only his
hands as the landscape beneath
gets tinier and tinier.
Why is Hunt on the wing?
Well, that’s what can happen
when you try to board a plane
after takeoff. He manages to
successfully remove a case of
nerve gas canisters, but we’re
just getting started.
We soon learn that the IMF
is being disbanded, and the tim-
ing is terrible. Hunt is onto
something really bad: the Syndi-
cate, a nefarious group of former
computer whiz who provides a
crucial dose not only of humor
but also of humanity here. Wel-
come newcomers include Alec
Baldwin, as a pompous CIA boss
with deliciously dry delivery, and
Rebecca Ferguson, making the
most and then some of the oblig-
atory female role. Ferguson is —
get this — Swedish-bom, named
lisa here, and, yes, shows up in
Casablanca, too.
Rogue Nation begins with
the scene you’re most likely to
have heard about, because it in-
volves Cruise’s own stunt work:
The actor actually places himself
eerie resonance in today’s world.
Hunt soon finds himself
chained to a ceiling in a London
dungeon. Enter lisa (Ferguson)
who obviously has some attrac-
tion to Hunt, and a tendency to
save his life, but also is clearly
not working with him, either.
The two meet again in Vien-
na, and eventually in Morocco,
where Hunt and his friends take
on a mission that involves, for
one thing, Hunt holding his
breath underwater for an im-
possibly long time while fighting
an impossibly strong water cur-
rent and many other things.
Mission:
Impossible —
Rogue Nation
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Rated PG-13,131 minutes.
Opens Friday.
spies led by a vague, sinister
leader (Sean Harris). That the
Syndicate is not attached to one
particular nation — it is the
Rogue Nation of the title — has
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