Terribly Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2002)

Man, oh, man, where to begin. I thought anything with Spielberg and Cruise involved would at least be entertaining.
First of all, this is supposed to be the future, with all this advanced technology. We are treated to the sight of Tom Cruise standing in front of a screen with these electronic gloves on his hands, waving his arms around, making images come and go. This is what passes for crime iunvestigation in the future. Then we have these "pre-cogs", people with pre-cognitive abilities, floating around, half-asleep in a swimming pool. Then, to top that, we have spiders! Spiders! You know, the kind that chase you, jump on you, crawl up and scan your eyeballs? It's like a bunch of people sat around in a room and said "Let's see how many weird things we can pack into this movie".
One of the main things that made the "Mission: Impossible" movies work, for me, was that Tom Cruise seemed to have an absolutely great time playing his character, and he did a great job in those movies. In this one, he seems to have mailed this in. He is extremly unimpressive. In fact, one of the better things about the movie is Colin Farrell. He seems to have about the only decent character in the whole movie. In my book, he completely outshines Cruise.
The last 20 minutes or so is actually decent. There is finally some actual human interaction, and a decent story line. But, by then, I was sick of this, and just wanted to get out of the theater.
This was just stupid.....