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UNITED STATES · 2015
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Synopsis
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Cinematic DNA
Christopher McQuarrie made his crew obsess over Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï — the quiet precision, the icy professionalism, the trench-coat silhouette of the assassin. Ilsa Faust is Alain Delon's samurai remade as a woman. The Vienna opera sequence pulls from Bernardo Bertolucci's visual sophistication. McQuarrie documented this in the DVD commentary, understanding that spycraft requires the aesthetic of European cool. Both films are on Criterion Channel.
The films that I've always been drawn to are movies that are about surgical precision... Movies like John Frankenheimer's Ronin, and Le Samourai, and Le Cercle Rouge. These films are very, very inspiring in how they tell a story through pure visuals, with very little dialogue.
— Christopher McQuarrie · Screen Rant
Films with Similar Themes
international espionage · rogue organizations · government agencies · covert operations · team loyalty
