Scottscope Talk Radio 8/1/2015: The Rise of the Rogue Nation!

On this week’s edition of Scottscope Talk Radio, the roundtable reviews Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation!  Could this be Ethan Hunt’s most impossible mission yet?  Is the franchise only getting better with each successive entry?  Has Christopher McQuarrie succeeded where John Woo supposedly failed?  Did he manage to top both Brad Bird and J.J. Abrams?  Could Rogue Nation be the best pure action film of the summer?  Are spy films undergoing a renaissance this year?  Who should be handed the directorial reigns for the IMF’s next cinematic outing?  Is Tom Cruise getting too old to play the lead in this series? 

The roundtable will also be reviewing Ant-Man! Is the troubled history of the production evident in the final product? Would Marvel Studios be better off right now if they would have let Edgar Wright have his way? Just where does Scott Lang rank among his MCU counterparts? Is he a first stringer, or a bench-warmer? Is the film a pleasant surprise, or is it the first real chink in Marvel’s seemingly impregnable armor? Now that phase II of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has officially come to a close, how does it stack up to phase I?