Christopher McQuarrie’s 2015 film “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” is arguably the best film in the series.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) was getting a little older and was considered decreasingly trustworthy by his sour-faced bosses at the Impossible Missions Force.
“Rogue Nation” saw him tracking down the identities of a rogue nation of ex-spies who were secretly working together to, essentially, destroy the world.
Complicating matters, however, was a mysterious free agent named Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) who had to commit secret spy shenanigans for her own reasons.
Like “Mad Max: Fury Road” from the same year, “Rogue Nation” not only upped the voltage on the action but shifted focus away from the central male character, placing it instead on a much more interesting and capable woman. This was also the third film to feature Simon Pegg as the character of Benji, a one-time desk jockey who had become an…
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