Mission Improbable

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2000)

Was this a good film? No. Could it have been a good film? Who knows. The choice of John Woo for director pretty well sealed the fate of this turkey. Between the loud noisy digital sound effects and the spinning vertigo inducing camera work what was left for a movie. Plot? Good guy gets bad guy no moral choices no hard decisions. Acting? Fight choreography and some buff bodies were all that were needed. Not that Cruise wasn't good and the bad guy evil it just really didn't matter, the effects were the movie and if you need relationships that grow and plausible scripts with good memorable dialogue you just won't find anything here worth seeing other than Cruise and Thanie Newton who are both appealing eye candy.
All in all there are more holes in the plot than John Lennon sang about ("Now I know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" and oh so convenient finding out all (and I mean all) about what no one knew about in the prior scene that the effort should be called Mission Improbable. Pray that Woo takes a bow on MI3 and they bring back DePalma.