On a dangerous assignment to recover stolen plutonium, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chooses to save his team over completing the mission, allowing nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of a deadly network of highly-skilled operatives intent on destroying civilization. Now, with the world at risk, Ethan and his IMF team (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson) are forced to become reluctant partners with a hard-hitting CIA agent (Henry Cavill) as they race against time to stop the nuclear fallout. Thereโs never been a threat more destructive, stunts so jaw-dropping or a mission so impossible!
The world is in danger of nuclear bombs because Tom Cruise cares too much about his team. Ironic since the lamentable dialogue and forgettable action set pieces make it very hard to care about anyone in this movie at all. "turn left" says Simon "wooden" Pegg, not realising that he's directing Ethan Hunt to jump out of a 20th storey window. The movie would have been mercifully shorter if Cruise had truly cared about his friends enough to take their advice. Come friendly bombs and fall on this.
Rented this with a 0.99 offer. After the Paramount intro, I have blackscreen and sound only. I missed watching this in the cinema and was looking forward to watching today. I have 47 hours left and would like this issue to be fixed before that time runs out. Sure, it's only ยฃ0.99, but I don't know if this error is for those using the offer, or for anyone renting/buying this film. Frustrated.
MI films are increasingly boring. I haven't enjoyed any of them since MI3, and this was no exception. Adequate action, convoluted plotting, lame comedy, no interesting characters, tedious bad-guys and Ving Rhames looking like he should have retired long ago. The first was great, if a bit confusing. The second was underated, with some great John Woo action, the third was the pinnacle, with Phillip S-H doing an unforgettable villain and Abrahms "getting" what makes MI fun. Downhill since then