"This man, Hunt, is the living manifestation of destiny," says the CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) to the British Prime minister during an emergency. For one, it is quite amusing to see a straight-faced Alec Baldwin mouth such a line. But more significantly, this is a very entertaining line which also tells us that this movie is an unapologetic star vehicle whose stated (and achieved) purpose is to entertain the socks off our heels.
MI5 begins with Hunley succeeding in disbanding the "outdated and imperfect" Impossible Mission Force (IMF - we're unsure of how the Intern....