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Rating: Null/10 (29 February 2004)

Yes that's the sort of technology showcased in this 8-year-old blockbuster, which is sadly already very out of date. Film starts out well, interesting, and clever, but somewhere after the first half hour unravels utterly. The plausibility goes directly from Hollywood cool downhill straight into Superman comic book land. It's way too much to itemize. I guess James Bond has been doing that sort of thing for years, but only recently have they too crossed the insult your intelligence line. MI has some very exciting and suspenseful moments, and a cast and a half to enact them for us. I just wish it had been toned down action technology wise, and beefed up with story believability or replaced a few of the tedious double crosses with um...a plot? Would have been quite good. Remember Dragnet '87? When it was over you thought to yourself, 'I do believe the TV theme music was the best part.' Deja Vu!