Super-spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from active duty to train new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he’s ever faced – Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team – his old friend Luther Strickell (Ving Rhames), transportation expert Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), background operative Zhen (Maggie Q), and fresh recruit Lindsey (Keri Russell) – to travel the globe pursuing Davian and rescue Hunt’s love, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).
It’s Mission Impossible, it’s Tom Cruise, don’t expect anything serious or groundbreaking, but do expect a good solid, fairly thrilling action movie.
It does keep you on your toes, and Ethan is a little more human in this movie, plus of course the requisite guns, toys, gadgets, slick moves and explosions we’ve come to expect from Mission Impossible.
It’s running a respectable 6.9 on IMDB at the moment.
The action spans a few continents, has a typically nasty sadistic badguy, not much a plot, but thankfully is less about Tom Cruise (Hello, “Mission Impossible II – I’m Tom Cruise”), and more about the movie.
Not much acting is required for this kind of film, but there is enough there, a little plot development, a little human emotion and a lot of action, that’s pretty much how I would sum it up.
Oh yah, did I mention lots of explosions?
The grandscale set peices are very good, I have to say I didn’t expect much from the movie, but I was pretty impressed nevertheless.
Well worth a watch for a good bit of brainless action.
The end however made me sick, sick sick, it was so wrong, I wanted to kick the screen in.
I’d give it an entertaining trash 6/10.
Was there any stunt jumping on couches?
Oh, Lionel beat me to the punch, I was going to ask if there was a scene where Ethan Hunt was jumping up and down on an exploding couch! Darn it! 🙂 hee hee!
The ads for it haven’t grabbed my attention enough for me to bother seeing it at the movies. I might wait for it to come on TV.
Haha, good one, Dabido! I did consider adding in my last comment that the couch was hanging from a helicopter up 10 storeys high…
nice movie – saw it last week. it certainly beats poseidon for entertainment value!
dammit it’s been out here in london for more than 2 weeks already and i still haven’t watched that!
yeah, entertaining trash, can’t agree more on that.
Laurence Fishburne was awful.
Lionel, Dabido: Apparently the couch jumping is old. Check this out, damn funny! Oh, for those of you who doesn’t hate Tom yet, take a look.
https://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1687784/
Spiller – I have no idea what he was doing … and I can’t figure out why it’s bad! Surely that video isn’t any reason to hate Tom Cruise … probably a reason to pity him that he can’t dance … but … you know …
Lionel – I like the idea fo Tom jumping on a couch hanging from a helicopter! KEWL!
[Can I add an explosion as well for good measure!??] 🙂
I watched it last night and oh God, my head is still pounding now! Didn’t really enjoy it.