Dunn reveals he copied the data onto a second USB drive, as Stickell and Brandt catch up to them.įaust returns to London and attempts to use the file to quit her mission to infiltrate the Syndicate, but her MI6 handler, Atlee, compels her to continue, whilst discreetly wiping her drive. Faust flees with the data, evading both Hunt and Syndicate members, although Hunt kills the pursuing agents. Stickell tracks Hunt, Dunn, and Faust to Casablanca, where the trio break into and acquire a secret Syndicate file from a secure building. Brandt contacts Luther Stickell to find Hunt before the CIA does. Hunt, blamed for the Chancellor's death, is pursued by the CIA's Special Activities Division. After learning the Syndicate is working against "the old world order" by committing several terrorist acts, Dunn stays with Hunt instead of reporting back to the CIA, despite knowing his action amounts to treason. Faust willingly drops hints of Lane's plan to Hunt before leaving. The two stop three snipers, including Faust, but the Chancellor is ultimately killed by a car bomb, and Lane is still not found. Six months later, Hunt, still a fugitive living in Paris (luring a CIA team to a decoy safe house in Havana), enlists former colleague Benji Dunn to attend the opera Turandot in the Vienna state theater, predicting that an assassination attempt will be made on the Austrian Chancellor at the performance, and that Lane will also be there. Cut off from the IMF, Hunt follows his only lead: the man in glasses, later identified as former MI6 agent Solomon Lane. IMF Field Operations Director William Brandt, knowing Hunley will try to capture Hunt, warns him to stay undercover. Hunt escapes a torture chamber led by Syndicate member Janik "Bone Doctor" Vinter with the help of disavowed MI6 agent and now Syndicate operative Ilsa Faust.
As CIA Director Alan Hunley successfully convinces a Senate committee to disband and absorb the IMF, currently without a secretary in charge, into the CIA for its destructive methods and other misconduct, Hunt is captured by the Syndicate at a record shop in London, while their leader, a blond man in glasses, kills the female IMF agent stationed there. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $682 million worldwide, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2015 as well as the third-highest-grossing film starring Cruise.Ī sequel, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, was released on Jwith McQuarrie returning as writer and director.Īfter intercepting nerve gas being sold to Chechen terrorists in Minsk, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is determined to prove the existence of the Syndicate, a consortium of rogue field operatives for various different intelligence agencies turned mercenaries the CIA does not believe exists. The film was released in North America by Paramount Pictures on July 31, 2015. In the film, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is on the run from the CIA, following the IMF's dissolution as he tries to prove the existence of the Syndicate, a mysterious global freelance terrorist group composed of many former intelligence officers from many different countries.įilming began on August 21, 2014, in Vienna, Austria, and concluded on March 12, 2015. Abrams, and David Ellison of Skydance Productions. The film stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney, and Tom Hollander, with Cruise, Renner, Pegg, and Rhames reprising their roles from previous films. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a 2015 American action spy film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, from a story by McQuarrie and Drew Pearce and the fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.