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.
