Mission Ridiculous - SPOILERS

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2011)

Fortunately, there were a lot of things to like in this installment of the M.I. franchise. Tom Cruise, as usual, did a great job in the lead role, the chemistry among the team members was decent, if not great, and the overall look and feel of the film was good.
The negatives for me were few, but nearly overwhelming. The Simon Pegg character's comic relief moments were too many and over the top. The chemistry among the team was decent but not great. The female leads character, when she tried to do the seduction thing, was weak. And, the really big problem, for me anyway, was the fact that any and every thing that could go wrong did. A few mishaps in their strategy, or a few gadgets not working as planned is one thing, but just about every single angle they tried to play went badly wrong in one way or another. I don't know about anybody else, but for me, I have a much harder time suspending my disbelief when the Mission Impossible team is constantly screwing up and having equipment failures and nearly blowing the whole thing repeatedly. Of course, this results in another problem, that every scenario goes down to the absolute last second to barely succeed, really? Plus, the villain was weak and not developed as a character at all. Also, the ending was way long and overly schmaltzy.
Anyway, it was all saved for me by Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner doing a great job with the action, even if it was over-directed. Otherwise, I would have given this a much lower score.