The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation”

There’s no reason the two secret agents at the center of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation,” Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise, and Ilsa Faust, played by Rebecca Ferguson, must have a romantic connection. Most men and women manage to work together, even very closely, and develop strong relationships while keeping sex out of the picture. It’s a bad Hollywood cliché that a man and a woman thrown together by work and bound together by mutual respect, even admiration, must therefore fall in love and have a sexual relationship.