Mission Impossible- Getting my money's worth...

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2012)

Wow, this is one of the boring films of the cold war era... even though it was made 25 years after.
Really, "the Russians?" Secret launch codes on paper? Thank God they haven't invented thumb drives, email, or computers, or this movie would be ridiculous. 1980 called, and it wants it's script back.
OK, let me get this right... Tom can jump off a building onto a moving car, but he can't climb down a wall to get the suitcase with "THE BIG RED BUTTON"? He has to risk his life by crashing a car to the ground instead? Oh, Kay...
And let me get this straight... he is like James Bond, but his gadgets don't work? Seeems like those super secret spies would check the batteries on their magic gloves, but I guess not. And let me see, Tom Cruise as James Bond drives a BMW-made Prius with neon lights, but it doesn't do anything (except maybe cement Tom's super macho image as a Prius driver). And Simon Pegg uses a magnetic levitating skateboard... but it doesn't work well either. Oh yeah, but at least they had a Magic screen to break into the Kremlin with... oh wait, it went on the fritz, too.
But oh, the cinematography was amazing. I mean after all they were in Dubai at one of the World's grandest buildings. Wow, what a great time for close-ups and small shots to help discard the grandeur of the location.
THis movie works best as a tribute to all real action movies, lazily borrowing ideas from the Bourne Series, the Bond Series, Looney Tunes, and every lame cop type show from Jag to CSI-wherever, to NCIS, and every action movie from when Tom Cruise was a Star. With a cavalcade of unimportant characters (Simon Peggg I get, he just likes to have fun even though he is great in things he controls, but I guess Jeremy Renner must have lost a best or blown all his cash from the good movies he has been in... because he wasn't necessary here. Oh and the ladies in the film were like the scattered decorations in a Michael Jackson video... cute but not believable.
Tommy, you owe me 8 bucks...