However stateless and lawless Ethan may be, once he’s disavowed by the C.I.A., he is far from friendless. Conversely, you could wind up, like me, so suckered by the tentacles of the plot that its ethical implications pass you by. How often do you get to hear Alec Baldwin sound like Ayn Rand? You could read the whole film as a reactionary plea for less transparency-for agents toiling so far below the surface of civil society, on our behalf, that we should not insult them with petty requests that they remain accountable.
Needless to say, circumstances lead Hunley not just to change his tune but to sing the praises of Ethan as “the living manifestation of destiny.” Around me, people howled at that line. It is accused, by a congressional committee, of “wanton brinkmanship”-a nice description of this genre of movie-and promptly shut down. The hitch, for Ethan, is that Hunley (Alec Baldwin), the director of the C.I.A., argues that the I.M.F. Kikuo JohnsonĮthan works, as ever, for the I.M.F.: the Impossible Mission Force, not the International Monetary Fund, though it’s easy to imagine Christine Lagarde as his controller, immaculate in pearls, calmly instructing him to break into Greece and steal back the German cash. Some things have held firm throughout the “Mission: Impossible” films, not least a resolute belief that the globe is made for trotting.
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