Surprisingly awesome flick!

Rating: 9/10 (16 June 2013)

I will start by saying I'm not Tom Cruise's biggest fan... but Scientology aside, I think he's a great actor, if you like the kind of films he's in. I am someone who reads, and then very often hates movies based on books. So clearly I haven't read these books, so nothing to compare.
I think I was expecting a more cheesy, crazy over the top action movie. What I got was a lot better. It's a thriller, with some good action scenes. Some people say there are a lot of cheesy lines and jokes, but I thought the humour was well placed, and it made you like Tom Cruises character right from his first scene. You get good car chases, fights and shoot outs to make it a great action movie, but not so much that you lose out on a story.
I've seen some awful movies lately, very cheesy, poorly scripted movies (example- the newest Die hard- so disappointing!!) , and I consider myself a picky movie critic. I've never taken the time to write a review before, but after reading some of the negative reviews on this movie, I had to say my bit.
Hopefully you watch this, and ignore the bad reviews, because you don't know what you're missing otherwise. And if you hate Tom Cruise so much that you wont even like him in a movie... then why watch him at all, messing up the ratings just because you cant get over the actor's personal life?