Mission: Impossible - Rouge Nation (2015)

This 5th Mission: Impossible movie continues the trajectory of the previous two films, building on the fall out of previous events and expanding on them. The 'team' is well put together, and the set pieces continue to be first rate, I am thinking particularly of the under water data storage unit heist, as well as the opera house sequence. Speaking of the opera house sequence that is one of a surprising number of homages to the Hitchcock classic The Man Who Knew Too Much to appear in this film, which include the assassination plot and the Morocco sequences. There is also some of Tinker, Taylor, Solder, Spy here to with the goings on inside British intelligence. Alec Baldwin shows up as the newest bureaucratic foil for Ethan Hunt, while Rebecca Ferguson is the, I guess you'd call it love interest, while Ving Rhames, Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg all return. As much as I liked Ghost Protocol, I think Rouge Nation is probably a little bit smarter. ***1/2