Never mind if you’re a Marvel fan or a DC fan or a Fast and Furious fan (or, unfortunately, a Transformers fan), the perpetually charming Tom Cruise’s latest entry in the galloping Mission Impossible series is the best piece of blockbuster action extravaganza that you’d have seen in some time.

   The 19-year old franchise, which hit a (minor) low point with the J.J. Abrams-directed third installment before bouncing back in a better-than-ever avatar with the wildly entertaining fourth installment helmed by Brad Bird, manages to find a way to stay relevant in today’s oversaturated market place and hit a new high under the less-outrageous-ismore-outrageous approach of incoming writer-director Christopher McQuarrie.

    You might think you’ve seen it all. Hell, you saw Cruise wall-climbing the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol, for crying out loud. But McQuarrie, also the writer on Cruise’s last -....