Laughable

Rating: 1/10 (12 October 2006)

Wow. This was atrocious. Unbelievably bad. Embarrassing.
There's literally 20 minutes of action and an hour and 40 minutes of stupidity. The action scenes are the most ridiculous, over-the-top, comedic, absurd, preposterous action scenes ever filmed. I laughed out loud several times. EVERYTHING explodes when Cruise shoots it...EVERYTHING - don't be surprised if you see wooden chairs exploding in this movie. Cruise does the most pointless stunts imaginable, like dragging his feet on the side of a motorcycle (COOL!!!!??) and doing nose wheelies across the street on his motorcycle (NEAT!!!!!) I was actually waiting for Cruise to do a dance after his K.O. on the sand, take off his glasses, crush them under his foot, then wink at the camera and do a thumbs up just in case. Cruise is also a master fighter, gunman, base jumper, biker, driver, and all-around perfect guy.
Bad guys chase after Cruise, who is actually invincible in this movie, and die left and right in bloodless, painless deaths. It actually makes violence fun and cool! The bad guys outnumber Cruise and unload hundreds of bullets and can't even come close to hitting him, yet Cruise can do barrel rolls off of motorcycles while shooting his gun and blowing up trucks with ease. I was hoping he would've been blindfolded - wouldn't have been implausible. This might appeal to a 9-year-old. That seems to be the target audience.
The 2-disc DVD has almost 10 minutes of bonus features! There's a skit, some awards show excerpts, and a very short documentary. That's it. Real pathetic cash-in. The only reason it was released is to add the M:I-3 teaser. Boo.