This is NOT Mission: Impossible

Rating: 4/10 (26 May 2000)

I gave this movie a 4 simply due to it NOT being a 'Mission: Impossible' episode. In the TV, and even in the first movie, it was more of a team espionage show, but this was just another action movie. One major flaw was the recruiting' phase of the movie, where Tom has to charm Thandie Newton into doing the right thing. In the show, and even in different parts of the movie, they always use IMF members with those patented MASKS to fool the bad guys into spilling the beans. So why did they fell the need to recruit' an outsider? Well, that give Tom more screen time and the writers an excuse to put a sappy love interest in the movie. Weak. On the plus side John Woo's choreography of fight scenes is still superb. Too bad they're used in excess, probably due to a lack of an intelligent script.