Loved the action but hated the betrayal of the original series

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2005)

I am a huge fan of spyflicks & series and I was happy when I learned that M.I. was to be made but to me it was a complete betrayal of the entire series that Jim Phelps turned traitor. We have followed him from when he formed the unit & his fatherly caring for his fellow agents, I feel that it was totally wrong & outside the character for his betrayal of IMF & his country. A way for the makers of the movie franchise to redeem themselves was to make a new movie in which it turns out that the Phelps that was killed in M.I. in fact was an infiltrator and that the real Phelps had been held captured thus the new mission was to rescue him and destroy his captors plans to implement their own perverted version of IMF. If Phelps was killed it really didn't matter as long as he was still a hero. He might die saving Hunts life thus there would be no conflict with a returning IMF leader. I give this only 5 stars out of 10 due to the betrayal.