Vision Impossible

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2005)

Shockingly inane product placement for Tom Cruise, Audi, Bulgari, and Sydney Harbour Bridge (best actor). We're talking the end of cinema as a medium here. If there still is something called "film", and if that something is supposed to require more than a single brain cell to be understood, then this is not a film properly speaking. Lamer than even the recent 007s, this self-advertisement vehicle paid for by one of the century's biggest professional frauds is a 24-fps example of the money-fueled hubris of latter-day US cinema. It is the sick blossom of a decomposing society in its final stages, which has come to confuse MTV with music, McDonald's with food, and Saddam with Satan. Cruise and Woo have inoculated audiences world-wide with their lethal Chimera virus. If Scientology is right, they will burn in hell for having killed intelligence.