The sixth installment of Mission impossible was a great effort from start to finish. Bringing back certain characters, even in small roles help up the ante and lead to less time in exposition and more time advancing the stakes, the plot and ultimately the resolution. The action pieces are always well done and though it seems impossible for the stakes to get higher they always seem to do in this case they even get more personal. The twist and turns in this movie were unexpected. The first watch through and even on subsequent viewings it was tough to remember them all, and left me somewhat surprised and amused throughout.

Now this is a much better outing for our IMF pals - much sharper pace and direction than the meandering "Ghost Protocol". This one sees "Ethan" (Tom Cruise) with "Luther" (Ving Rhames) and the still frequently irritating Simon Pegg ("Benji") having to track down some plutonium balls after an earlier mission went a bit awry, and before lunatic ecologist Sean Harris ("Solomon Lane") commits an atrocity to end all atrocities in the name of creating a new world order! The first twenty minutes are poor; predictable and formulaic and I will admit to having started to write it off, Once Henry Cavill ("August Walker") joins the gang, however, and they start to search for the missing cores it becomes fast-moving, action-packed and enjoyable - with plenty of crosses and double-crosses. Rebecca Ferguson still always comes across the same, whomever she plays, but that works for this one and the team spirit really comes across. Sure, it isn't going to win a Booker for the writing, but it travels the world showing off some fine locations (many of which are actually left intact, afterwards!!) before heading to an exciting denouement with helicopters and Cruise's favourite mountain-top pinnacle combat. All good stuff.

They just keep getting better, but they never get good. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._