Never knew a Mission Impossible movie or John Woo movie could be this boring.

Rating: Null/10 (2 March 2012)

I never got a chance to see this movie at the theatre, but when it came out on video I was very pumped for it. I really enjoyed the first mission impossible and this film, with it's awesome sound track, (limp bizkit being one of my favourite bands AND doing the theme song.) and all the promotions for it seemed like it was going to kick ass. Also I'm a fan of John Woo's American movies such as Face/Off, Replacement Killers and Broken Arrow (Haven't seen his Hong Kong flicks) all signs pointed to this movie being non-stop action with some good humour thrown in the mix.
What I got was a very long, dragged out, dry, humourless, predictable movie with literally zero action until the end of the film. Not to mention, Limp Bizkit's theme wasn't even used for more than 12 seconds! John Woo is famous for using slow motion, it's one of his trademarks. Which is fine for action sequences and so on. But Woo uses slow-motion in practically every scene. So this two hour movie is really only about an hour and a half, but dragged out because so much was done in slow motion. There was a scene where Thandie Newton's character approaches Dougray Scott's character. I swear to god the scene is 5 minutes long simply slow motion of them staring at each other. Also, the dialogue is so lacking that there's virtually no character development on anyone.
All around a disappointment. As I write this review I'm re-watching the movie on blu-ray for the first time and my opinion hasn't changed. 5 out of 10 because it did lead to M:I3 and M:IGP