Shallow story, yet entertaining.

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 2015)

The story is shallow, the characters as two dimensional as a piece of paper, the use of special effects way overdone, yet the movie is good. This is the case because of the presence of Tom Cruise. Working with a script that devoid of even the pretense of intellectuality, he manages to keep this movie watchable. Cruise's performance is uncanny. Although no longer a young man, his personal in the movie is entirely youthful. His delivery of one-liners matches is superb, proving that he is one of the best comic actors in cinema today. And that fits perfectly with this movie because what the movie is slapstick comedy mixed in with some action-adventure stuff to produce a cacophony of action in which the plot becomes irrelevant. The movie is pure action. As a venue for special effects and incredible stunts, this movie delivers, with interest. As for the story itself, that's an entirely different matter.