You've got to be kidding me

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2000)

This movie was awful. I feel like I've just wasted 2 hours of my life. And my expectations going in were really high. Tom Cruise, John Woo, Mission Impossible, what could go wrong? Well, plenty. Too much slow motion (stunts and love scenes both, everyone in my theater was laughing when Tom Cruise and Thandie Newton were spinning around each other in their Porsches in slow, languid eye-locked embrace), plot holes you could drive a mack truck through (MINOR SPOILER: how did Ethan know which henchman he'd be tangling with to switch places with him?), and stupid villains (note to movie villains: when the hero is at point-blank shooting range, shoot him). While some of the action stunts were cool, they drag on for way too long and wear any suspense out. Sorry, Tom, Magnolia was really good and I'm looking forward to Minority Report, but this was not really that good. And you're going to make about a $100 MILLION on this too.
Hope Gone in 60 Seconds is better.