God bless Brad Beard. He was a director who was in charge of reviving the Mission: Impossible Franchise in 2011, after Jey Abrams completed the initial three films in the series with "Mission: Impossible III", and laid the foundations for future installments in order to be larger, better and more blisters than ever. Bird "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" was an explosion. It has opened the floods of nonsense, but also more intense, and even more action oriented film lines that seem to be hyper-expertized and spectacles prompted by adrenaline.

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But that was not until Christopher McCarari's first entrance to the franchise, "Mission: An impossible-forming nation", that Tom Cruise's characteristics reached their full potential. The fifth installment was an absolute peak, relying much in stunning stunts and elaborated pieces that drove the franchise to new, formerly unprecedented heights. However, Rogue Nation also managed to balance by offering the best of both worlds: keep (and increase) the basics of the spy formula, while focusing on increasingly bolder and monumental action sequences that dared to oppose the restrictions on what could do.

Of course, perhaps that can be said about the sequels - Spectacular "Mission: Impossible - A consequence" And "Dead Conservation"-but "Rogue Nation" was the first, completely crowded copy set by the model and the perfect plan for the heirs to follow.

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It is easy to forget about these films when you withdraw from one fast scene in a chase in another, thrown into an underground water tank, or forced to jump on a stripping plane, but also "Rogue Nation" stands out in that aspect. Narratively, it is the first time in the history of "M: I" when the IMF (impossible missions force) closes (temporarily), essentially turning Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) into a refugee. He must go on the run from the agency he hires as he tries to stop the latest terrorist organization called the union, led by Solomon Lane (John Harris) and gathered from various field operatives belonging to separate intelligence agencies who have passed on hostile. McCarari, who wrote the story with Drew Pierce, has smartly builds the stakes and has released numerous threats of Hunt who are paid comfortably in terms of mounting the suspension that drives the film from the first second to the last. It is a slight narrative change from what we have seen before, but the one who is appropriately aligned with the tone of the director's story style.

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Do not make a mistake, however, the sales point of "Rogue Nation" and indeed, every movie "Mission: Impossible" that begins with the fourth film-is wilder-from eternal action set pieces. While "Ghost Protocol" Truly Had One Unbelievably Nail-Biting and Magnificent Stunt (Ethan Hunt Climbing the Burj Khalifa Skyscraper in Dubai), "Rogue Nation" is practically filed with First Scene Where Hunt Jumps on An Airplane and Mounts Its Side While It It Takes Off to the Insanely Claustrophobic and Uncomfortable Underwater Sequence in a Vault Where He Needs To Hold His Six. Then there is a fiasco at the state opera in Vienna, the car chase on the streets of Casablanca and so on. The best thing, of course, is that Cruise has made most of those stunts independentlyTrying to save the movie with a big budget as we know it.

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McCari masterfully mixes all this together and produces a breakthrough, an exciting high-kino combo, which really feels like reinvention.

However, above all technical achievements and miraculous stunts, however, "Rogue Nation" has also found the best possible cocktail of the ensemble, as the Mission: Mission: Impossible. In addition to regulations in the "Ghost Protocol" (Cruz, Simon Peg and Ereeremi Renner), McCari presented a dangerous sexy sexy sexy female FEME, who has become a favorite fan of this film. No wonder why: If you ask me, the actress ran circles around most Bond girls with performance that are transmitted with vitality, defiance and aura, the franchise never had this measure. Surprisingly, her unexpected exit in "Dead Suming" left the fans to shoot and be disappointed. In addition, Alec Baldwin's casting as a solved and fierce CIA director, Alan Funley, was also a smart move along with the restrained, but still threatening villain John Harris. And for a good measure, the return of Wing Reims as Luther (not just for Kimo this time) was a kind of nostalgic touch that generally makes the film's longtime Loversibuilders happy.

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This terribly talented team not only failed, but set a perfect example of a fiery, yet harmonious and fun dynamics between a group of actors who can elevate the vibration and caliber of the film together to another level. That is not to say that the sequels failed on this front, but in the "Rogue Nation", everything gathered in the best possible way.

In essence, McCari has strengthened every feature and defining the quality that the franchisee is today by showing us how effective they can be when they hit that imaginary ceiling. Of course, opinions will always vary in what is best in the canon of "Mission: Impossible", but it is difficult to argue against Rogue Nation as one of the strongest - if not the strongest - candidates.

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