Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

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I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, but I am very much looking forward to this when it opens in July. I thought the franchise was over when JJ Abrams screwed it up with Mission Impossible 3, but thankfully, Brad Bird saved it with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol in 2011.

Not a Cruise fan, either, particularly, but this entire series has been a decent action franchise, more consistent than the Die Hard series. I have much more personal admiration for Bruce Willis, but the Die Hards have been very uneven and Good Day to Die Hard was dreary and pathetic. I hate to see John MacClane reduced to a worn out geezer. Lately, Willis is more entertaining in the R.E.D. movies.

I wasn't too sure with the first MI, if they had really captured the essence of what made Mission Impossible such a great television series (making Jim Phelps the bad guy and then killing him off was a weird twist), but Cruise has made it his own and kept the best elements of the original concept.

The films have been getting progressively closer to the TV show. The first two had practically nothing in common with the show, aside from a scene here and there. The third is when they started focusing more on teamwork (as opposed to simply being The Tom Cruise Show) and the manipulative con games that defined the show more than chases and explosions. The fourth one (Ghost Protocol) went even further, and was the first that I felt really deserved to be called Mission: Impossible.

I'm liking what I'm seeing of Rogue Nation, but they seem to be cramming the trailer with action scenes and leaving out the real spy stuff, the mind games, the sneaky stealth stuff that must be there. A more full trailer is supposed to be here soon, so we'll see.

Full trailer:

New trailer with mostly new footage:

Hmmm I might be interested if it is in my area.