Terrible Script--No Narrative Drive--Throwaway Scenes

Rating: 3/10 (25 December 2011)

While there were several set pieces in this movie, it was totally lacking any narrative drive. Also, several indulgent scenes at the end should have been edited out. Just a slack, pointless exercise in execute vanity. A waste of two hours that I wish I had not seen.
The presence of Jeremy Renner didn't gel because he was cast against his type as a passive analyst who had field skills not commensurate with his job title.
There was too much amateur standing around talking about what we're going to do that was unnecessary and should have been displayed to us via the dramatic exposition--the stuff that happens--not by having Tom Cruise yack on about what he plans to do.