It’s not your imagination; Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, the fifth movie in the Mission: Impossible movie series, will arrive an impressive 19 years after the first, demonstrating once again that Tom Cruise’s super-spy movie franchise is one that bucks a number of trends when it comes to summer blockbusters.
The Mission: Impossibles are almost a stealth series; they’re released some distance apart. , and lack the tight self-referential nature of modern genre franchises. Mission: Impossible has quietly, ever-so-slowly built a franchise out of coming out of hibernation every few years to deliver an exhausting, thrilling action movie that will leave its viewers waiting for more.
