Chix Chat on Film review: Mission Possible: Great Action

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2012)

After having experienced all the previous Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chronicles, I knew this would be an action adventure treat and I was not in the least bit disappointed. This was the best film of the year for action, not once did I lose interest in what was taking place on screen. The journey to Dubai with the scaling of the skyscraper was still very intense even after having seen bits of it numerous times in the trailers. Mr. Cruise is amazingly brave or just plain retarded to do his own stunts, either way the action scenes have a credibility that exceeds pretty much everything else that's comparable when extreme stunts are featured. Jane Carter (Paula Patton) was an awesome new addition to the Mission Impossible team. The name is very generic but there was nothing generic about Ms. Patton holding her own as an action star. This was a very good look for her, she was very convincing kicking butt. Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) the newly added tech wiz was exactly what I expected, great comic relief and finally the enigmatic William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) completed the team that put a smile on my face as I exited the theater. I only had two issues with this film, first the opening credits with the fuse was cheesy and secondly the Ethan and Jane kiss was totally unnecessary, but I just figured that Mr. Cruise could not resist capitalizing on his star power to get a lip lock with Mr. Thicke's wife, she is very beautiful after all. I was very pleased with the story and how it bridged the time since the last mission so that we quickly get caught up with what had been taking place in Ethan's life. The shock and awe sequence that put Ethan and William together and the pretty bow that tied everything up in the end was superb. I know that the whole car flipping scene from the trailer is computer generated imagery, but it looked really good. I know that Dubai is in the middle of the desert and sand storms occur, and the sand storm most likely was CGI too, but it was some kind of awesome. It looked so real I had to keep sipping on my drink, I started to feel parched. This is a movie that I would actually pay to see in the theater again, it was worth the price of the admission. It gets a bright green light.