Impossible to watch

Rating: 2/10 (18 June 2017)

The worst of the MI series by far. Apart from the opening scene, the rest of the flick is a yawner. No mystery, no intrigue, no real action. Just terrible.
Director Woo went to town on extended slow-mo close-ups of Tom Cruise and his girl played by Thandie Newton. OMG, if I see another close-up zoom to her nose I'm going to get sick. The support team really sucked too. They gave old reliable Ving Rhames nothing to do, and who the heck with this Simon Pegg lookalike who just laughed and did nothing?
The final scene of an extended car crash with stuff blowing up all over and motorcycle after motorcycle really let you know that there was no plot in this movie, so the director decided to blow things up all over.
It didn't work. It's impossible to like this flick. Cruise smiled too much, did his modicum of fighting, flexed his younger muscles, but the flick still fell flat. For much better MI, see 3 or shoot, any other, even 1. Skip this mess - not worth it.