Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie

Written by: Christopher McQuarrie, Bruce Geller

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris

Runtime: 131 min

With the IMF disbanded, and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, the 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), as the group faces their most impossible mission yet.

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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Brad Bird

Written by: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Paula Patton, Josh Holloway, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Lea Seydoux, Anil Kapoor

Runtime: 132 min

This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated, and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.

Brad Bird is the director, and Jeremy Renner (William Brandt) is one of the new additions to an already recognizable cast.

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Mission: Impossible III (2006) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible III (2006) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: J. J. Abrams

Written by: J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

Starring: Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Simon Pegg, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne

Runtime: 127 min

The third entry in the Mission: Impossible film series involves Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) being forced back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).

His mission, should he choose to accept it, is to capture Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a dangerous weapons dealer who is selling a toxic weapon. Eventually, Davian makes things personal, and Hunt has to protect the ones he cares about.

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Mission: Impossible II (2000) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible II (2000) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: John Woo

Written by: William Goldman, John Logan, David Marconi, Michael Tolkin, Robert Towne, Rick Berman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson, Dominic Purcell

Runtime: 123 min

Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, an operative for the top-secret government agency IMF (Impossible Missions Force). Fellow agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) has gone rogue, stealing a sample of a deadly synthetic virus named Chimera that could rapidly wipe out the world's population.

Ethan is assigned to recruit the help of Ambrose's former lover Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), who may be able to quickly regain his confidence. Sophisticated disguises, gun battles, and high-speed chases are the order of the day ...

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Mission: Impossible (1996) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible (1996) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Brian DePalma

Written by: Robert Towne, David Koepp, Steven Zaillian, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Estevez

Runtime: 110 min

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a secret agent framed for the death of several comrades and falsely branded a traitor, who embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure.

Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train ... Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.

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