Chart Position: 8th Worldwide Gross: $682,330,139 Another example of a complete franchise hit (and too another example of a franchise which continues to get better with age), Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, the fifth film in the series, sees Tom Cruises Ethan Hunt again put through the wringer, the star this time subject to even more outrageous action set-pieces than in the series predecessor, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. Rogue Nation dips slightly in quality from that film, but it remains a fantastic piece of action cinema, deftly directed by The Usual Suspects screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie, and gamely performed by a 53 year-old Tom Cruise continuing to defy the laws of age. Most memorable for the superb action scene that opens the picture (Tom Cruise and the plane taking off), Rogue Nation never lets up on its frenetic pace, moving seamlessly from one set-piece to another while all the while letting Cruise and his co-stars (Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames) just do their thing, infusing the movie with a kind of screwball zaniness as they go.
