Great action, nothing more

Rating: 6/10 (3 May 2012)

As long as you're willing to put your brain on suspended animation for the duration of the movie, there's plenty of stuff to enjoy in the movie - amazing action scenes and stunts, incredible effects, some humor and corny lines, beautiful women etc.
If you do keep your brain active, you're in for some disappointment. There's your standard run-of-the-mill plot, with the tormented protagonist having to save the world with no government backup. Wow, déjà-vu! Didn't we have that back in MI:1? Oh sorry, got totally confused -- this time it's the *entire* IMF disavowed, not just Ethan. Plus, the plot here is even less sophisticated than the one in MI:1, so I can't really compare the two movies.
Anyhow, your brain would probably end up in suspended mode anyway, as a self protection mechanism, after being exposed to the senseless progression of the plot, the impossible stunts, or the shameless, explicit product placements. Even so, after the whole thing ends, you might find yourself wondering, as your brain regains consciousness: considering all of the futuristic, non-existent (not yet, anyway), technologies seen in the movie, how is it that some very important, existent technologies seemed to be missing (e.g. anti-ballistic missile systems?)
Considering the idea of the original MI TV series, where "impossible" missions were accomplished with wits, elaborate strategies and a couple of believable gadgets; and considering the idea of the MI:2-4 movies, where Tom Cruise and his associates accomplish missions with loads of futuristic gadgets and super-human abilities, I personally find it's really a shame how the two ideas got somewhere mixed up.