20 WTF Moments From Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

5. Jeremy Renner Is A Desk Jockey For Most Of The Movie

When Jeremy Renner was introduced in Ghost Protocol, it was widely accepted that this was to become a possible replacement to Tom Cruise given his declining box office relevance and, of course, his age. That never happened, however, and in Rogue Nation, his William Brandt character is given a depressingly reined-in role. He spends the first half of the movie on the phone and holding folders as a CIA employee, and even when he ends up in the middle of action sequences, he doesn't do a lot more than run over a terrorist with a car. Could the script not have given him at least one or two awesome action beats to actually make him feel like he matters? Instead, Renner probably filmed his scenes in a few days and was done.