The formula as usual.

Rating: 5/10 (3 February 2012)

Having seen most of the films playing that I wanted to see and not being impressed by the new offerings, I decided to go for eye candy and leave my brain at the door. Unfortunately, the latter came to join me anyway and at that point everything unravelled. Critics claimed that this 4th outing in the series was the best, which doesn't bode well for the previous ones which I didn't bother to see. As a teen, I loved this TV series with often well thought out stories. What I liked most of M-I on TV was the way they used every day objects in innovating ways to great effect. But in this film, we are in super effects to fill the eye, especially in Imax, along with doubtful tools. Everything in fact to try to mask an improbable story. Tom Cruise shows us once again his depth by playing Tom Cruise as usual, as he did in so many films before. It gets tiring in the end. He plays this intrepid and invincible American hero who fears nothing, save pretending the fear of heights to pretend to be comical. I could hardly wait for the end of this.