I will keep this review shorter than Tom Cruise and start by saying that similarly to what I wrote about seeing Fast and Furious...and basically any action fuelled film ever made, you don't tune in for the moving plot, emotional character journey or Oscar worth performances. Not that it would be Mission: Impossible for any of those things to happen, just very unlikely, and so Tom Cruise being very much aware of the rules, went right on ahead and reprised his role as Ethan Hunt.
The film starts off at at 100 miles an hour... well more around 55 knots an hour, as Ethan Hunt "boards" a plane to recover information he believes will help the CIA believe in the existence of The Syndicate - an international criminal organisation.
Naturally, said international criminal organisation will not allow Hunt to do so, and thus they steal his proof, capture him and begin torturing him. While he is basically slacking off, the Impossible Mission Force faces threat of disbandment for their chaotic tactics in getting the job done, a feat that is being spearheaded by the CIA.
Hunts mission, should he choose to except it (though when has he not?) is to escape capture, prove the existence of the Syndicate, look cool in a tuxedo, engage in a chase scene, re-enact the fight scene from Elijah Wood's Piano, and out smart the girl.
They call this mission impossible, but I could probably do all that with my eyes closed, my hands tired behind my back, and in heels. Either way the film was as Okay as expected, and though I hope that they just let the character of Ethan Hunt rest so that they can reprise him with a younger model... I will probably be finding an inventive way to rehash this review in two years when Mission: Impossible - Never Going To End, makes its way onto the big screen.
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