Your mission if you choose to accept it will be to read this post till the end.
Yes, Ethan Hunt is back,and knowing him his entrance in anything short of amazing,in the very beginning of the movie we see him clinging onto an airplane which is in the air!! This sets the tone for the movie, warning the viewers that nothing is impossible for Ethan Hunt (or for Tom Cruise for that matter as he performs most of the stunts himself).
He gets kidnapped later on by an international criminal consortium, known as the "Syndicate". There while he is tied and getting beaten up by someone known as the "bone doctor", the name sends a chill down my spine, he sees a beautiful mysterious woman. This woman who seems to love her shoes, I mean who doesn't, ends up aiding his escape. How does Ethan always end up finding beautiful women? I mean come on its not like he has an active social life or goes to parties and stuff to meet women.
He previously witnesses the killing of a IMF aid by a man. He makes sketches of this man and the woman and starts hunting them. The man being the leader of the Syndicate. Meanwhile the CIA director is not happy with the IMF and wants it disbanded. He succeeds, and the members of the IMF start working with the CIA. And they start a manhunt to find Ethan. Uff the Americans and their CIAs and IMFs and FBIs and what nots.
Benji, who is extremely bored working behind a desk at the CI, gets a mail saying he has won a free ticket to the performance of opera Turandot by Vienna State Opera. Once reaching there he comes to know that it was Ethan who had sent him the tickets. He wants Benji to find the man with glasses (identified as Solomon Lane) in the crowd. The chancellor of Austria also attends the Opera, which by now you can guess is not a coincidence. Hunt sees that not one, not two, but three shooters are targeting the Chancellor, to assassinate him. One of them being the girl (known as Ilsa, I thought it was Elsa, but no its "Ilsa". Frozen inspired?). I still did NOT get how she managed to wear a dress, stilettos and climb a ladder and run over the roof. While the whole Opera is on lock down Hunt and Ilsa escape via a rope. And Benji escapes, well I am not sure how but he has a car which picks them up. Now why dint Hunt take Benjis way out. Maybe he just likes doing impossible things, true to his nature.
Its nice to watch a tiny man like Ethan Hunt fighting with huge men and not get intimidated. He also almost dies while in water, gets tossed around in car and then gets up and joins a high speed bike chase, and all this without a scratch. One of the scenes of him driving a car over steps reminded me of my cab driver, wow now everyday I will feel like an IMF agent.
Overall the movie was good with a few mistakes here and there. Totally acceptable. I am quite forgiving you know. Seeing Ethan, Benji, Luther and Brandt working together again was a treat. Though I would have liked to see more of Renner.
A must watch for all MI fans. You should not miss this one. This comes in at second in my list of MI movies.
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Nah no I am Just kidding with y'all.
But there is a spoiler ahead please stop reading if you havnt watched the movie yet, or else please continue.
I hope there a sequel to this movie, with Alec Baldwin joining the IMF team, as we see in the end of the movie. The star cast will be treat to watch together.
Good review :-)
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