Good action but not much interest

Rating: 5/10 (24 June 2012)

Here's another Mission impossible movie. Tom Cruise is trying SO hard to please the audience. And every time he seems to come up a little short. MI2 was just pathetic and MI3 suffers the same problem as Ghost protocol. See below! :)
The action and the production in this movie is great. You can tell they put in a lot of time creating good action scenes that doesn't seem to stop. They just keep going and going and sometimes that's enough to make you say "Jeeeeeesus Christ"! And there's plenty of good humor. Sometimes in one liners - mostly coming from Simon Peggs character Benji. But there's also some humor in the action scenes.
But why bother? Most of the actors are good but not even Tom Cruise himself seems to be very inspired even though this is his pet project! The characters are just vehicles for the action and I don't really care about any of them. Even though they try to add a little depth with some story it never takes off.
The action scenes are intense but they're always over the top. Sure this is mission impossible. But when everything is REALLY hard all the time, when EVERYTHING goes wrong, and the movie is REALLY exciting all the time but they somehow win anyway...you stop caring. There's very little holding this movie together. In fact, the action scenes are a bit like separate movies in themselves. They move from from one part of the world to the next where new action scenes takes place. And since the plot IS the actionthe movie becomes shattered!! It's a bit like James Bond. Or rathertries to be like James Bond. And even though I'm quite entertained for the moment it just doesn't add up. It's all a bit too polished. Ethan Hunt will never be James Bond who is truly a psychopath! A killer! A womanizer! A man with a dark mind and a sordid past. In comparison Ethan Hunt is nothing but a smiling do gooder who wants to save the world like the true boy scout he is.
Also Mikael Nyqvist disappoints as the villain. I know him from Swedish movies and he talks!! He says his lines but he never acts... which is a pity! He's almost not in the picture anyway and you have to wonder about the motives of his character. His actions are incongruent and ultimately...completely pointless!
I was entertained and I might watch Ghost Protocol again just for the hell of it. But it's no classic! With this kind of production I expect much more. 5/10 stars.