too scooby doo-ish for me....

Rating: 5/10 (24 May 2000)

I hate to say it, but I'm a movie freak...but even I couldn't love this movie. Although the amazing stunts with all the nice high tech equipment [and Tom Cruise's muscles] kept me quite entertained throughout the movie, the plots twists proved too much for something that's supposed to be a fun and entertaining movie. I fear that if I would take my 11 year old brother to see it, he would be asked me questions the whole time. But I have to admit, the helicopters, fast cars, and the motorcycles combined with the high tech villain [a deadly virus that that bad guy threatens to unleash in downtown Sydney] were pretty impressive. Alas, I was told by a lab rat friend of mine [as in, someone who works in a lab at a university] that most injection guns do not come in shiny chrome. But Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, and Thandie Newton all do nice jobs of playing...well, who they are supposed to play. And one last comment...isn't it sad that we're running out of villains? No more Nazis, no more Communists....it's all technology now.