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  • New ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ Trailer Is Fun as Hell

    Mission Impossible Rogue NationBreaking into impossibly difficult locations is Ethan Hunt’s (Tom Cruise) specialty. Helping him do that is Benji Dunn’s (Simon Pegg).

    The new “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” trailer is just as action-packed, high-adrenaline, and entertaining as the first, but with more of everything. There are more gadgets. There are more car chase scenes. There are more wry quips from Pegg. There’s more of Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames. The dial has been turned up to 11.


    In the movie, Ethan and team go up against “The Syndicate,” a nefarious criminal organization described by Dunn as the “anti-IMF.” On board for this adventure is Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust. They’ve got to do all this just as the IMF itself is under political attack.

    “Now we’re all wanted by the CIA,” Renner sighs. “Awesome.”

    Yeah, it DOES look awesome.

    “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” opens in theaters July 31.

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  • The Full ‘Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation’ Trailer Is Even Cooler (VIDEO)

    The “Mission: Impossible” franchise has always been one of the best and boldest series in contemporary cinema. Starting with Brian De Palma’s still-classic 1997 film, then viewed simply as a high tech makeover of the beloved television show, it has evolved and changed with each new installment, reaching new heights (both literally and metaphorically) with the fourth entry, 2011’s “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” This year sees the arrival of a new film, “Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation” and a brand new, full-length trailer. Yes, yesterday was just a tease. And the full thing is even more delicious.

    The trailer starts out with Alec Baldwin, as the head of the CIA, murmuring about the outdated nature of the IMF (that’s Impossible Mission Forces, the clandestine group at the center of these films). Since he’s off camera most of the time, too, his soothing voice makes it seem like the opening narration for “The Royal Tenenbaums:” “The IMF is uniquely trained and highly motivated, specialists without equal, immune to any countermeasures. But it is an agency of chaos. The time has come to dissolve the IMF.” So, there you go. Tom Cruise is in trouble! The stakes are high!

    For the remainder of the trailer, we’re given glimpses of the team (including Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames from earlier installments) and a new member in a seductive mystery woman (played by Rebecca Ferguson). There are death-defying stunts, capped off by an amazing sequence where Cruise is hanging off the side of a giant airplane (something that he actually did, of course). While we with that the filmmakers could have found room to include Paula Patton’s character from the fourth movie, since she added a lovely dynamic to the group, things look pretty solid this time around.

    What’s interesting, too, is that they’re folding in an element from the television series called The Syndicate, which in the show was more of a mob-style organization but here is, as the title suggests, a rogue nation of terrorists. The Syndicate is actually mentioned in the last scene of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” (I watched it again last night, of course), which is also pretty cool. The Syndicate is like the Joker playing card, leading us into this movie.

    “Mission Impossible Rogue Nation” hits IMAX theaters and regular screens on July 31st. It can’t come quickly enough. %Slideshow-161294%

  • The New ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ Teaser Is 100% Badass (VIDEO)

    Ready or not, here comes Tom Cruise — as IMF agent Ethan Hunt — in the newly dubbed “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” After watching the first, minute-long teaser from the fifth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, we’re 100% ready for the badass-ness that is to come.

    Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, and Ving Rhames are back, along with newcomers Rebecca Ferguson — a standout in the trailer, for sure — and Alec Baldwin. This time around, Hunt and team are on a mission to take down The Syndicate, a “rogue nation” (see what they did there?) of operatives doing bad, bad things. Or, as they say in the teaser “the anti-IMF.”

    “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” hits theaters July 31st. In the meantime, bask in the Tom Cruise-ness of the poster below.mission impossible rogue nation poster