Horrible!

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2000)

Call it what you will, this film was TASTELESS! Not only was the bad guy a mix between Scottish, Russian, British, and German, but the violence! Personally I belive John Woo should have cut down on the shooting and booming things to Hell, but thats him. being a Chinatown Yakuza influencial, his style of "action" took over the orginality and essence of Mission:Impossible. His direction towards Tom Cruise to have him do Kartae and such, really was disgusting and i think should have been deleted for completely obvious reasons. (email me if you want to know them) Having seen the old B&W samurai battle films made in Japan during and after the war, I can tell you, Woo ripped off th endings of them. The duels between the good and bad guys on the beaches, PLUS having the "Karate" of some sort stuck in there. he also took the same music from Gladiator to express humanism, which obviously DID NOT WORK. The parts that I did like though, were the spy tactics Cruise used to infiltrate the building and the technology used throughout the film. The car chase scenes really did not work out for me at all. The cast was fine, nothing wrong there. Dialouge was fine, setting was really cool, that I liked--Australia! And where the crap did those guards come out of in the building scene? I really thought this film was a waste of my time and money. I do not recommend it to anyone interested.