Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation: Rebecca Ferguson is the other star of the film

C8 is rebroadcasting the first film in the saga directed by Christopher McQuarrie. A success.

Article originally published in August 2015 for the release of Misison: Impossible: Rogue Nation in theaters. Since then, Rebecca Ferguson has shone again in the role of Ilsa Faust in her two sequels, Fallout and Dead Reckoning – part 1.

We said it again and again in our review: Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation is a team film. Okay, the franchise is dominated by the figure of Tom Cruise pushing the films in the series to chain speeding with crazy stunts – you know it, you’ve read it everywhere, Cruise in a plane, Cruise in apnea, Cruise on a motorbike, etc.

But while in the previous films, Ethan Hunt acted a bit in a vacuum, without an unforgettable enemy (except in the first film) in Rogue Nation the director/writer Christopher McQuarrie managed to draw out a major asset that is all the stronger because it is unexpected: Ilsa Faust, played by Rebecca Ferguson. Badass twin of Hunt, who will balance, complete the hero. And straight away, in each scene where Ilsa appears, the obvious becomes clear. Faust is directly one of the best characters of the year.

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An English spy with murky motivations, Ilsa is a trickster character whose allegiance we will never be too sure of (as her demonic last name suggests a little too obviously), until the end of the film. Action hero of absolute coolness – you have to see her take off her shoes before her first fighting scene – which is never reduced to her gender despite what her character poster : if she completely fascinates Hunt to the point of obsession and serves as a common thread for the mission, she is not destined to end up in the hero’s stake as a reward for her ordeals.

While Cruise, a bit like Tintin, is the spectator’s double with whom we can identify (no parents, no wife), Ilsa has her personality, her background, her objectives. The parallel with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) of Mad Max Fury Road is here. Ilsa fights with a knife (at the end and it’s the best fighting scene in the film), with a gun (while Hunt doesn’t fire a single shot), freediving, riding a motorcycle, sniper flute, has a signature combat move… You’ll understand when you see it. Fascinated by the actress, McQuarrie – who deleted from the final cut a shot, seen in the trailer, completely gratuitous where Rebecca comes out of the swimming pool while a low angle is centered on her buttocks – carves out action scenes for her tailor-made, cinematically obvious and over-exciting. Ilsa’s movements in an evening gown in the famous opera scene have to be seen to be believed. It’s beautiful.

Tom Cruise was in apnea for 6 minutes on the set of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

Be honest: who among you has seen The Red Tent and or The White Queen, the TV series that revealed Rebecca? We suspected it, but don’t panic. Rogue Nation has just propelled Ferguson directly into our best of 2015 and into our franchise pantheon Impossible mission. So far, due to lack of personality, none of the women from the previous films (Emmanuelle Béart, Thandie Newton, Paula Patton) had not managed to return in a sequel. Except Michelle Monaghanbut which was only the simple archetype of the “woman in the fridge” placed there to serve as motivation for the hero’s actions. With great high kicks, Ilsa easily dominates Rogue Nation and may have directly won his ticket for Mission: Impossible 6.