History YMMV / MissionImpossibleRogueNation

** The trailer rendition of ''Ready or Not'' is [[CreepyAwesome suitably menacing in atmosphere]].

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Unlike the other villains in the ''Mission: Impossible'' series, Solomon Lane goes down with very little effort. Ethan simply lures him into a trap and later gasses and arrests him. The Blu-Ray/digital bonus features explain that when Cruise and [=McQuarrie=] discussed having Ethan kill Solomon Lane, they realized it wouldn't fit with the rest of the movie.]]

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The car crash during the chase scene in Morocco look ''laughably fake'' as we see the car bouncing on both its bumpers akin to a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon.

* EvenBetterSequel: Both audiences and professional critics seem to consider this the best film of the franchise after Fallout, topping the already-acclaimed ''Ghost Protocol'' in glowing reception. Then, Fallout came out and even topped this film, overshadowing Rogue Nation's 76% on Metacritic with an astounding 86%!

* EvenBetterSequel: Both audiences and professional critics seem to consider this the best film of the franchise to date, topping the already-acclaimed ''Ghost Protocol'' in glowing reception. Then, Fallout came out and even topped this film, overshadowing Rogue Nation's 76% on Metacritic with an astounding 86%!

* IdiotPlot:
** [[spoiler: If Atlee knows where all the money is, he could easily have taken steps to make sure Lane never gets his hands on it simply by arranging transfers to other accounts that are not on the data file or just emptying the coffers one way or another (and if he didn't, he threw that chance away by deleting the file), especially since TheSyndicate had been active for ''years'' before the story began.]]
** If Lane is willing and able to [[spoiler: outwit and destroy an entire covert intelligence unit, assassinate world leaders and carry out numerous terrorist attacks and high-level crimes ''without anyone even knowing for sure that his organization exists'', he should easily be able to find alternate means of financing his scheme by fair means or foul, apart from the data file (one also questions the wisdom of giving an illegal covert operation the budget of a small country to begin with, Mr Atlee; such operations are almost never ''that'' expensive, even granting the scope of his ambition). Lane should have taken the 50 million pounds that Hunt transferred him and promptly done a Houdini; he could have invested that and used it to fund future Syndicate operations.]]

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The car crash during the chase scene in Morocco look ''laughably fake'' as we see the car bouncing on both it's bumpers akin to a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon.

* EvenBetterSequel: Both audiences and professional critics seem to consider this the best film of the franchise to date, topping the already-acclaimed ''Ghost Protocol'' in glowing reception.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The car crash during the chase scene in Morocco look ''laughably fake'' as we see the car bouncing on both it's bumpers akin to a WesternAnimation/LooneyToons cartoon.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: The audience is supposed to disagree with the committee chairman who shuts down IMF, calling them reckless - except this comes immediately after a field mission that clearly was reckless. Mission Control had no idea Luther was involved in the op, and no one had any idea where Ethan was, so it was poorly planned even before the hacking fails.

* CrazyAwesome: Ethan spends a large portion of the film being ''utterly batshit'' in the name of the mission. Plane taking off with chemical weapons? He climbs onto the plane and hangs on in mid-flight until he can enter. Computer databanks protected by an enclosed water tank? He holds his breath for several minutes to break into them. Mooks getting away on motorcycles? He climbs into a car and chases them moments after near-drowning. [[spoiler:Benji held captive by Lane unless Ethan hands over the ledger? He gloats that he memorized ''all the account numbers in the ledger'' and destroyed it, forcing Lane to keep him alive after freeing Benji.]]

*** [[spoiler:If he doesn't know where the money is, Atlee can't get into the red box to find out without the Prime Minister twigging to the existence of the secret murder club he expressly forbid Atlee from starting, so the only other thing he can do is delete the data to protect the PM from getting snatched by the Syndicate. In addition, Ilsa told him that what she had was a ''ledger'', of all Lane's operative, terrorist and politician contacts. Atlee's not going to risk bringing ''that'' home to [=MI6=] ''at all'', let alone to read, because it might implicate him in the Syndicate's creation. The only real dumb thing Atlee did was to code the red box to the Prime Minister's voice, retinal scan and handprint, despite knowing that he had not approved the Syndicate's existence; one can only imagine that Atlee was dreaming of the day he could show the Prime Minister just how successful the Syndicate had become, and have the satisfaction of having changed the Prime Minister's mind.]]

*** [[spoiler: Why would Lane settle for 50 million when he's so close to getting much more than that?]]
*** [[spoiler: Dude has been so goddamn careful this far - if I were him, I'd prefer to be free with 50 mill than risk capture.]]

*** Why would Lane settle for 50 million when he's so close to getting much more than that?

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As usual with ''Mission Impossible'' characters who aren't played by Creator/TomCruise, Jane ended up not making an appearance despite coming off from the incredibly successful ''Ghost Protocol''. Jane, as well as Zhen from ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'', were slated to return for this film, but both actresses were unavailable during filming.

* HolyShitQuotient: The trailers end with Ethan clinging to the side of a military plane as it's taking off. And no, that's not simply really good CGI work -- ''that's Creator/TomCruise clinging to the side of a real-life military plane during takeoff''.[[note]]Although he is strapped to a harness that was digitally removed.[[/note]] Even more impressive? [[NeverTrustATrailer That wasn't a climactic scene]], it was at the ''beginning of the film''.

*** [[spoiler:If he doesn't know where the money is, Atlee can't get into the red box to find out without the Prime Minister twigging to the existence of the secret murder club he expressly forbid Atlee from starting, so the only other thing he can do is delete the data to protect the PM from getting snatched by the Syndicate. In addition, Ilsa told him that what she had was a ''ledger'', of all Lane's operative, terrorist and politician contacts. Atlee's not going to risk bringing ''that'' home to MI6 ''at all'', let alone to read, because it might implicate him in the Syndicate's creation. The only real dumb thing Atlee did was to code the red box to the Prime Minister's voice, retinal scan and handprint, despite knowing that he had not approved the Syndicate's existence; one can only imagine that Atlee was dreaming of the day he could show the Prime Minister just how successful the Syndicate had become, and have the satisfaction of having changed the Prime Minister's mind.]]

** [[spoiler: If Attlee knows where all the money is, he could easily have taken steps to make sure Lane never gets his hands on it simply by arranging transfers to other accounts that are not on the data file or just emptying the coffers one way or another (and if he didn't, he threw that chance away by deleting the file), especially since TheSyndicate had been active for ''years'' before the story began.]]
*** [[spoiler:If he doesn't know where the money is, Attlee can't get into the red box to find out without the Prime Minister twigging to the existence of the secret murder club he expressly forbid Attlee from starting, so the only other thing he can do is delete the data to protect the PM from getting snatched by the Syndicate. In addition, Ilsa told him that what she had was a ''ledger'', of all Lane's operative, terrorist and politician contacts. Attlee's not going to risk bringing ''that'' home to MI6 ''at all'', let alone to read, because it might implicate him in the Syndicate's creation. The only real dumb thing Attlee did was to code the red box to the Prime Minister's voice, retinal scan and handprint, despite knowing that he had not approved the Syndicate's existence; one can only imagine that Attlee was dreaming of the day he could show the Prime Minister just how successful the Syndicate had become, and have the satisfaction of having changed the Prime Minister's mind.]]
** If Lane is willing and able to [[spoiler: outwit and destroy an entire covert intelligence unit, assassinate world leaders and carry out numerous terrorist attacks and high-level crimes ''without anyone even knowing for sure that his organization exists'', he should easily be able to find alternate means of financing his scheme by fair means or foul, apart from the data file (one also questions the wisdom of giving an illegal covert operation the budget of a small country to begin with, Mr Attlee; such operations are almost never ''that'' expensive, even granting the scope of his ambition). Lane should have taken the 50 million pounds that Hunt transferred him and promptly done a Houdini; he could have invested that and used it to fund future Syndicate operations.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[ActionGirl Ilsa]] [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Faust]] is one of the best examples in modern filmmaking, being widely considered the [[BreakoutCharacter coolest]] character in the film by both critics AND fans. She ended up being such a hit that she was one of the first characters confirmed to return for [[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout the next movie]].

* CompleteMonster: Soloman Lane. See the [[YMMV/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries main film page]] for details.