Arriving at around lunchtime, I decided to go for my breakfast slash brunch at the local Chinese Kopitiam nearby called Ming Tien which coincidentally has the same name as the 24 hour food outlet located at Taman Megah. It's also my Chinese name spelled backwards. LOL. Besides the resemblance in name, this outlet also resembles in it's operating time and the ever slaughter of their overpriced drinks. Today was the day I found out an awful truth about the deviousness of the outlet which has led me further reasons to avoid this place - this place do not serve toast bread. And on such a crucial day where I specifically wanted to hunt for it. Anyway, I settled for a Char Siew Pau and off I went into the ever filled with people shopping mall called Sunway Pyramid.
It's been a long time since I set foot in this place. I've always avoid this part of town though it's very close to my work office because it's a place that has my mind thinking of the ever difficulty of finding a parking spot, the forever endless of crowd that visits this place and what's more, my job that I undertook many many years ago that I wasn't particular fond with. Anyway, what's different since the last I was around this place is that it's now even more difficult to obtain a spot on the outside free-parking-on-the-weekends-and-public-holiday due to the police seizing a few more parking spots for their own and some shops buying parking lots in front of their shops and making it a specially reserved section for their customers. Other than that, there's the covered walkway and new stations set in place at Sunway's surrounding areas and inside the mall itself, the most distinguishable difference to me would be that Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is no more. In it's place now sits a restaurant called NY Steak Shack where I can only see foreign workers running the establishment from the outside.
With loads of time to spare and my phone having battery issues and so conserving it is the wisest choice to make, I decided to catch a movie instead and settled with Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation since it's the most interesting of all that's the closest to the time I was there.
Hearing great things about the movie and knowing that Tom Cruise does his own stunts contributed to the draw of me wanting to watch this. Tom Cruise has in a way has sketched his mark on the Mission Impossible franchise which him alone has become the draw to why some people watch this movie. The role that he reprise as Ethan Hunt of the IMF (short for Impossible Missions Force) is such a force to reckon with that it's become like the James Bond of the espionage world instead of the originality of how the TV show originated to be, a set of forgettable agents who worked as a team to get the job done through many forms of tech wizardry and their cunning wits. Oh no. That's not the case anymore. It's now branded more towards the style of James Bond movies while James Bond movies ever since the insertion of Daniel Craig taking on the role as James Bond has a more hands on approach with difficulty in completing his mission and engaging in more fights and physical exertion than pre-Daniel Craig James Bonds.
The storyline of Rogue Nation has a similar approach to it's 4th installment of the Mission Impossible movie franchise Ghost Protocol where again Ethan Hunt and his gang finds themselves on their own and disbanded only this time, the whole IMF team were disbanded over a committee hearing where the CIA spearheaded the case over the argument of IMF being erratic in fulfilling their mission and somehow managing to successfully complete it out of sheer luck than actual carrying out of a well thought out plan.
With the IMF no longer existing, Ethan Hunt was deemed as a rogue agent who plays arsonist and fireman in order to show that the IMF appears to be working and trying to prove the existence of The Syndicate whom the CIA believes it to be a myth, a figment of imagination of Ethan Hunt's mind. Once Hunt knows of the disband of IMF, he went into hiding determined to expose The Syndicate with only 2 faces to go on, one being the man who's behind it all that killed his secretary and captured him and the other a woman who helped him escaped captive even though she looks like she's working for The Syndicate.
After six months of vigorously trying to track him down, the CIA finally thought that they had caught up with Hunt, only to find out that they were once again outsmarted and started grilling one of his former colleagues, Benji again with a polygraph test. But this time around, Benji Dunn actually knew that he was contacted by Ethan after receiving 2 tickets to the opera. However, Benji proved that he's more than a geek with his face glued to a screen by managing to compose himself and beat the polygraph test.
Over at the Vienna Opera house, Hunt roped in Benji to try and locate on who the guy behind The Syndicate is and has reason to believe that he would make an appearance over at the opera. The duo soon learnt that The Syndicate tried to assassinate the Austrian Chancellor there and tried to foil their plans but in the end failed to do so. Hunt met his femme fatale savior again and trusted her once more but not before confiscating certain items from her.
This led to finding her in Morocco and the plot thickens as you are left wondering whether this British Intelligence Agent is actually a defunct agent working for The Syndicate or does her loyalty still lies with MI6. There's also a lot more of the overcomplicating plot material which befuddles the mind and makes it hard to keep up at times since the main objective keeps changing and the ever playfulness of where each individual's loyalty lies. But all in all, the gist of the matter is Ethan Hunt hellbent at exposing The Syndicate led by a brilliant strategist who's formerly an MI6 agent called Solomon Lane who always manages to outsmart Ethan Hunt in being a few steps ahead as Ethan Hunt desperately attempts to find a way to beat Lane at his own game while trusting a seemingly rogue agent whom you never know where her loyalty lies and putting his fellow comrades in a bad light as all are now branded as wanted fugitives of the CIA knowing full well you can't trust the other intelligent agencies since they seemed to play a part in the construction of The Syndicate.
Well, as for me, the plot is good enough to satisfy me whereby I have yet to find a loophole in it. In addition to that, I definitely love the thrilling action scenes especially on the believable high speed chase part. And with that I give the movie 3.5 stars out of 5. Okay, I know it deserves more but I just am unable to shake my boredom of life and so taking into account of my current condition, it only manages to eke out of me that score.
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