All action. No heart, no soul

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2011)

Wildly impossible but typical action flick of today, and lacking any character development in its break-neck race to the end credits. Tom is his usual inscrutable and unreadable, buffed-up MI self, always in mortal danger while careening under, over, around and through all obstacles and dangers to win the day that would kill a real man in seconds. Why have Superman when Tom does all day just about anything S-man could do? Ridiculous to show a mortal man surviving all that bodily damage, let alone prospering with no ill effects. Sorry, but this movie was no more than mindless, thrill-seeking action of the Stallone/Willis type, but sure seems to be just what some want today for their movie going dollar. Not me, as I actually like a real story with real people in it.
The never-possible-in-a-trillion-years "story" was all action, all the time, start to finish, no rest or sleep possible, but rang phony from the word go for the lack of humanity in its players. It was no more than a non-interactive video game that used human actors instead of CGI-created ones, but allowed them the superhuman actions and death-defying nature of CGI. Absurd genre to be sure, but one that really clicks with those wanting only physical and no mental. Read some other reviews here for proof of that.