Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation
In 2015 in anticipation of Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation I wrote a post reviewing the other films in the Mission Impossible series. As I discussed I am only familiar with the movies so although I know the premise of the series I am not one to judge how true the films are to it. However I understand that in the show the Syndicate was a recurring threat to the main characters, much as SPECTRE is in the James Bond films. As always I discuss spoilers so please watch the film first and then read the below. Rogue Nation pits Ethan’s IMF team against the Syndicate, an organization that first started as a secret within MI6, until the Syndicate leader, Solomon Lane, went rogue and started conducting terrorist attacks. The Syndicate and the IMF team are both after a piece of data which turns out to contain money that the Syndicate can use to fund future attacks. IMF is absorbed into the CIA, headed by Alec Baldwin as a new character, Alan Hunley, making Ethan a fugitive for in