Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

It's early days but The Brighton Film Club's, perhaps controversial, opinion is that the new Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation is the best of the lot.

Veering the most towards Bond as the series has yet got this story of MIA spies forming an undercover terrorist group could have easily been something for Daniel Craig to deal with.

The film is broken down into four glorious set pieces starting with Ethan Hunt clinging onto the side of a plane as it takes off (apparently done for real?!), peaking with a nail-bitingly tense assassination attempt at a Vienna opera before an even more breathtakingly tense 'hold-your-breath-for-three-minutes' covert operation in an underground facility before the penultimate shootout on the streets of London.

Leaving behind the convoluted gobbledegook of before (the first film is unnecessarily complicated) this is the peak of what this franchise could achieve.

Pure popcorn cinema, a glorious thrill ride. Enjoy.

4 stars ****