Impossibly Stupid

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2012)

Super agents look tense and blow up stuff. It's a good thing Peter Graves was alive when this came out, or he would have been turning over in his grave at the treatment of his character from the beloved TV show. The script is by turns confusing and dull. An early action sequence where the team tries to do something to somebody at a party at a mansion is very clumsily executed by De Palma. A later sequence at the CIA headquarters comes off a little better but is quite far-fetched. The most ludicrous, however, is the final action sequence aboard a moving train. The cast is stellar, but only Redgrave turns in a noteworthy performance.