We’ve all been wondering, especially since the film is due out in a scant few months, what the latest Mission: Impossible movie is called, beyond, you know “Five.” After this weekend's Twitter teasing from Tom Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie and some of the other team members and yesterday's TV spot (lurking at the bottom of the page like a covert operative) and poster, we now know that **Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation **is on its way. Here's the full new trailer, should you choose to watch it.
From the looks of this first footage burst, McQuarrie and co have cooked up something that sits neatly into the spectacular, banter-filled current standard for the Mission movies. Plot-wise, it appears our heroes are up against something called 'The Syndicate', a rogue nation organisation that is trained and equipped much like the IMF, but intends to destroy them... And then there's our own government, with Alec Baldwin's official looking to shut down Cruise's Ethan Hunt and his team for good.
Plus there’s more of Hunt undercover, the requisite gadgets, Simon Pegg’s Benji panicking appropriately (and wearing plenty of camoflage for one scene), plus all the razzle, dazzle, sex appeal and globe-hopping you’d expect.
Oh, and how do you top clambering around one the world’s tallest buildings? Simples… You hang from a plane, something we might have known was coming because of a publicity stunt, but it’s still fun to see it happen. Hope anyone who tackles a sixth film realises that they’ll probably have to actually send Tom to the International Space Station.
With Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney and more aboard, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation flies into our cinemas on July 30. This news story was supposed to self-destruct, but we forgot the special charge that makes it happen.