Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Movie, 2015, The Team, Set in 2015
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is #7 of 10 in release order and #5 of 10 in chronological order in the Mission: Impossible.
The story
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation recap
Ethan Hunt is captured in London by the Syndicate, a network of rogue agents thought to be a myth, and sees its leader, Solomon Lane. Ilsa Faust, a British agent undercover in the Syndicate, helps him escape. CIA director Alan Hunley convinces the Senate to shut down the IMF and absorb it into the CIA, and Ethan becomes a fugitive. Ethan pulls Benji to Vienna, where they stop an assassination of the Austrian chancellor at the opera. Ilsa, Ethan and Benji steal a ledger from an underwater facility in Morocco; it holds the Syndicate's funding. Ilsa takes it to her British boss, Atlee, who erases it, and Benji is captured by Lane. Lane wants the ledger's accounts and forces Ethan to decrypt it. Ethan works out that the Syndicate was created by British intelligence and gone rogue, and that only the prime minister can unlock the funds.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation ending explained
With Brandt and Luther, Ethan exposes Atlee, who is covering up his own role, and lures Lane by claiming to have memorised the ledger. Lane chases him into a trap and is caught in a bulletproof glass cell. Hunley presents the operation to the Senate as a sanctioned IMF mission, and the IMF is restored.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Where to watch Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy, and Pluto TV in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 94%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, before Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
- Chronological order: after Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, before Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
What to watch before Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
In release order, the essentials before Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) are Mission: Impossible (1996), Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Mission: Impossible III (2006), and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011).
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- Jeremy Renner as William Brandt
- Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
- Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
- Sean Harris as Lane
- Simon McBurney as Atlee
- Zhang Jingchu as Lauren
- Tom Hollander as Prime Minister
- Jens Hultén as Janik Vinter
- Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley
- Mateo Rufino as A400M Pilot
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.