Disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (2 January 2012)

Going into this movie, I expected a good 2 hours of entertainment and initially, wasn't disappointed. But as it progressed, the quality started to deteriorate.
The story is interesting enough. Ethan Hunt, after breaking out of a Russian prison, is sent on a mission to retrieve vital information about a Russian terrorist from a Kremlin. Things go wrong and the entire IMF is shut down. Now, on the run and lacking the resources they once took for granted, the team has to stop a plot to kick-start a nuclear war. In short, your typical action movie.
Now, sad as this sounds,"Salt" and "A-Team", both movies released in 2010, and operating on a similar basic premise, put this one to shame. There is awesome CGI like the Kremlin's destruction and the sandstorm in Dubai and some cool chases and a few interesting stunts(Tom Cruise climbing the Burj) but there is not even a small amount of tension. The IMF team operating in the dark without resources yet we feel no real desperation or urgency even if the one-liners are good. The climax in India, the one thing that could have saved this movie, is far less life-threatening than even the first 2 films in the series. The movie also does not pause to give itself rest and the scenes don't blend as seamlessly as they could have.
In essence, while this movie might be praised as the best in the mission impossible series, I found it to be a very ordinary movie pretending to be something more, it's many negative qualities cleverly disguised by witty one-liners and impressive CGI. Yet it could have been so much more as it starts off well.
My Rating-5/10