Which Cruise caper takes number one?
Nobody does it like Tom Cruise. Having established himself as a gifted leading man more than four decades ago, the ageless Hollywood star reinvented his career at the turn of the century to become one of the industry’s foremost action heroes.
The film kicks off with a floppy-haired Cruise dangling – some 2,000 feet in the air – from a precarious rock face on the edge of Utah’s Dead Horse Point, which immediately sets the tone for the antics to come. Upon returning to flat ground, series hero Ethan Hunt is tasked with preventing rogue agent Sean Ambrose from releasing a deadly virus on the population of Australia, the antidote to which he intends to sell to the highest bidder.
Make no mistake, Mission: Impossible features some downright iconic action sequences – the restaurant aquarium explosion, the vault infiltration mission and so on – but the movie appears a victim of its own success when compared to later franchise entries that up the ante and then some. If you’re watching the Mission: Impossible movies in order, then Rogue Nation, the fifth entry in the series, is the first to lack its own distinct sense of identity.
Playing more like a Bond or Bourne film than the two Mission: Impossible movies that preceded it, this one finds Cruise’s Hunt on the brink of a quiet life with fiancée Julia when elusive arms Owen Davian emerges with plans to release a mysterious chemical weapon on the world. Ghost Protocol’s trump card, though, is its absolutely ridiculous Burj Khalifa sequence, which sees Hunt rappelling down, climbing up and leaping around the world’s tallest building.
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