Mission: Meh!

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2015)

M.I. 5 is as original as Hangover 2, the story is predictable and the stunts are laughably over-the-top, however it's so fast paced that you just don't have enough time to realize it as Ethan Hunt jumps from city to city within minutes and the really exciting espionage work like getting information or managing to hide from the CIA without any help is done in secret and is not explained at all, we're just left to accept that Ethan Hunt can break into every facility (by just landing on the property with parachutes for example), that he somehow possesses the best equipment and can do whatever he wants.
The villain is like the previous one, just a decal of a villain, no psychological depth whatsoever.
The showdown is just a letdown!
What saved this movie for me was R. Ferguson as the double agent Ilsa Faust because she was as skilled and smart as Ethan and she was the actual impetus of the movie, she almost stole him the show, a very multi-layered, heroic female character which is rare in such movies.
I really don't want to see another "Fast & Furious" version of Mission: Impossible, how about some seriousness for a change.