Very good with a few visual let downs.

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2015)

This was a great films and very fun to watch and experience. The story was a really great continuance to the flow of the other films and stayed true to all of the themes and traditions.
Musically, the scoring was on point, developing themes for characters and sub-plots that I didn't even know were there until the music hinted at them. Very cleverly done.
However, and I'm really sorry to kill the party a little, but I feel that the CG in this film was much too obvious and just too unnatural at points in this film and, for me, it killed the realism and took me out of my immersed state. This is something that had never been an issue for me in previous MI films, largely I feel because CGI wasn't used as much.
This is particularly true of the sequence where Ethan is submerged underwater, and also when the BMW is reversed through a gate, down some stairs and flips over numerous times. In the latter sequence it was as though the CG team just didn't have much of a grasp of physics, like if a car smashes through a gate at high speed, the velocity of the gates will either mean they are thrown off of their hinges or they will hit their walls and bounce back. What they absolutely will not do is open in a mechanical looking manner, hit their walls and then just stop dead with no rebound.
Yes I know this is a small thing but it is just a tiny example of a bigger problem in films that is, for me at least, making me less able to buy into films. My suspension of disbelief in films like this can only extend to the boundaries of physics.
However, with that rather large portion of complaint given, I'm not going to let that totally ruin an otherwise good film.
7/10.