Lacks humanity

Rating: 5/10 (5 October 2015)

An adequate actioner but not well connected to the earlier movies in the series. And aside from a hair raising opening airplane takeoff, the stunts are witless. Cruise is getting some Eastwood about him and he looks physically unwell, and can barely swallow some of the worst dialog of the year on hand right here... care of McQuarrie, whose abilities as a director outshine his writing disasters. The storyline is almost incomprehensible; when there is no humanity in the characters' behavior or motivation, then all one can do is sit back and view the film as a roller coaster ride; equal parts excessive movement and unpleasantness. The Ilsa character is typical... more of a plot device. Acting is OK, uneven; Jeremy Renner cannot overcome his character's illogic and has the worst lines; Rebecca Ferguson adds life to the movie; the rest are negligible including over the hill action star Cruise, who should be playing the Alec Baldwin part so step aside and let a new generation take over that part.