Good characters, fun story-line, much love

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2016)

I wasn't expecting much and was really pleasantly surprised: this was overall great fun. I particularly enjoyed the relationships between the characters, the way they worked together and evolved on screen.
I enjoyed that Rita's actions were driven by necessity, duty and reason, and that it's Cruise's character who lets his feelings get in the way of their mission, not hers. It is a nice shift in the usual emotional-women dynamic and is also fully justified by the plot, since he gets to know her better every new day while she never gets to know him more than 24h.
I also really, really much enjoyed that romance is almost absent in the scenario - it is unclear if Cruise's character has feelings for Blunt's as a person he loves or simply as a person he got to care for because they went through so much sh*t together. The final kiss (sorry for the spoiler) annoyed me a bit, but seems like it was just a spur-of-the-moment/i'll die in 2 minutes thing.
(Just realized how much I'm annoyed by the fact that almost every movie-relationship between two characters of opposite gender around the same age always leads to a romance - no place for friendship, camaraderie...So this was a really nice and welcome change in the trope.)
So yes, if you love unromantic action movies with a bit of comedy, a bit of tragedy, good acting, great character writing and a original scenario - go see it! You'll probably love it.