eh...

Rating: 7/10 (5 October 2015)

When I first heard of this movie, I was excited because it looked really entertaining. You got Tom Cruise and Jon Voight, some cool action, it looked pretty entertaining. What really got my attention, unfortunately, was the backlash that it got from actors of the original series, with one walking out of the theater and still proclaimed it as a terrible movie until his death.
This...this should be fun.
There is one way to describe the effects of this movie: dated. Really, really dated. The effects, especially during the train sequence don't look good or convincing today.
Plus, I'm convinced that the IMF is either blind or stupid. The whole movie is set off due to one plot point about the leadr (Voight)getting killed, though we later found out he did it himself. I think everyone in the audience could tell that his hand was curved. Who are you fooling, really?
With that said, I will give it credit that Cruise was really good in this (even though he looked like Wynona Rider from Alien Resurrection) and the one scene that everyone remembers (the highwire scene) is DEFINITELY the coolest. No effects were used and to this day, it will still make you clench your buttcheeks and pause your breathing. In other words, it was really awesome.
Bottom line, while there are some really cool things in here, this movie is kinda...eh. Not good or bad...just eh.