‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ brings the summer action

Tom Cruise returns as superspy Ethan Hunt in “Mission Impossible — Rogue Nation.” (Bo Bridges)Superspy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), in the lively “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,” demonstrates an impressive number of essential life skills. In short order, he hangs off the edge of a plane, outruns bullets, holds his breath for a really long time, demonstrates the balance of a skilled tightrope walker, motorcycles without a helmet, dangles high above an opera set while beating somebody up, and (spoiler alert, but not really) recovers from death. (You don’t think this franchise would kill Ethan Hunt off, do you?) He’s such a Renaissance man that, during the disruption of said opera, I found myself hoping he’d hop onto the stage, don a costume and pinch-hit for the tenor.

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