SERIES: IMPOSSIBLE - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

“WRONG DOOR!”

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CONTENT WARNING: Violence, espionage, trauma, conspiracy, mass murder, paranoia

At some point you just knew we were going to run across a movie in this series for which we had some differences of opinion. Turns out it’s this 2015 entry, which is both fun as hell and also very derivative of another spy we’ve talked about extensively on this show. But Bond aside, there’s a lot of humor, a lot of intrigue, and a lot of character growth for Benji in this installment. Our villain, though, is pretty lackluster, and this movie just…drags…on. And of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the absolutely bonkers stunt of holding on to dear life to an actual jet airplane as it takes off from a runway. Because, why not, says Tom Cruise. We continue our “Series: Impossible” with Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpt taken from “Theme from Mission: Impossible,” written by Lalo Schifrin, produced and arranged by Larry Mullen with David Beal, and performed by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen . Copyright 1996 mother records.

Excerpts taken from the film Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation are © 2015 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.