Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organisation committed to destroying the IMF.
The most reliable blockbuster series going: Five films, some weirder than others, but not a stinker in the bunch.
– Chris Klimek,
NPR,
31 Jul 2015
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Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, whose action movie skills are at best high-adequate, compensates by being good at interpersonal stuff. He can make us feel for the characters as something more than action toys.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jul 2015
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Everything, even Alec Baldwin's tight and itchy turn as a CIA buzzkill, is mere window-dressing to Cruise's attempts to kill himself on-screen.
– Barry Hertz,
Globe and Mail,
31 Jul 2015
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You don't overcome the "impossible" by thinking it over a little more carefully. You overcome it through the application of sheer, unvarnished willpower, a quality that Cruise has always possessed in abundance.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug 2015
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Of the many heists and grabs that litter the movie, none is as blatant as the deft, irrepressible manner in which Ferguson, displaying a light smile and a brisk way with a knife, steals the show.