It did not live up to its potential

Rating: 5/10 (16 December 1998)

I gotta say I was disappointed with this one. Tom Cruise is one of my favorite actors and he did a good job in this movie, but the story wasn't there for me. As is the usual with me, and this may be the whole thing in a nutshell, I didn't understand what was going on. I never seem to "get" the storyline in these spy against spy films. All the masks and double-double crosses left me scratching my noggin. It was an exciting and well put together movie, though. To top off the whole cake, Mr. Phelps was the bad guy. That hurt!