Good ole nonstop action

Rating: 7/10 (8 August 2001)

Well - you can't really expect this movie to be anything else but a gadget filled action adventure. And it is - and I found that it did a great job with a few flaws along the way.
Tom Cruise has worked out - no question - but I somehow find it a bit hard to appreciate his Bruce Lee wannabe tendencies. Some of the villains that gets manhandled by Cruise are very, very slow. Their reactions (or lack of) to a sidekick/whatever from Cruise adds new meaning to the term "a sitting duck".
All in all though - I liked the movie - I was entertained. However I would like John Woo (and/or the writers) to think about the following, if they would like to make MI:3.

Why are villains bad shots? A villain with a machine gun was not able to hit Cruise with 100+ shots, but Cruise was able to hit the villain flying through the air, head down/feets up with ONE single shot.

Why does villains have to talk when they have the hero on target? Why not just shoot the SOB instead of trying to talk him to death? The hero does not seem to have those tendencies when wacking the bad guys.

Why does the "number 1 villain left for dead" have to wake up for the final scare?

The above is so-so cliched I cannot believe that they are still used - and I would really appreciate a Hollywood action movie without them - they don't add anything to a movie - except annoyance.
Rating: 7 of 10 - a good score - most of all because of the gadgets and Thandie Newton (woooohaaaaa).