Mission: Dreadful

Rating: 2/10 (20 July 2000)

Like many viewers, I went into the theater pumped about the latest installment of the MI series, with the cool cliffhanging shots of Mr. Hunt and the kickass Metallica theme song and what not. Unfortunately what I saw was the most insipid, boring, predictable manure of a movie that amounted to a total waste of two full hours of my life. Here's some points: The good: 1)Thandie Newton is hot The bad: 1) "mask" charade becomes extremely predictable as a remarkably stupid and convenient plot device 2) Thandie's "thief" character is dumb enough to continue her theft in the beginning of the movie despite the fact that some unknown man (Cruise) has stumbled upon her. 3) Sean, Thandie's "ex" and the idiotic bad guy in this movie, is dumb enough to tell his assistant that he doesn't care if Naya is spying on him as long as he gets some play. He emphasizes this by chopping his assistant's fingertip. 4) A virus that "incubates" with "direct sunlight"?? Anyone with any scientific knowledge at all will burst out laughing!! 5) Slow motions scenes were poorly fit in the context: for example they are appropriate at some tragic climax to a movie, not every two minutes. 6) The longest fight scene i've ever scene between two wimps who you know couldn't kick a chicken's ass in real life. (Cruise and the villain). 7) Doves?? What the hell? I think Woo had some left over from "Face Off" 8) the most poorly edited scene i've seen in a LONG time: in the previously mentioned fight scene, the villain gets on top of Cruise with a dagger pointed one inch above his eye. Cruise then grabs the villain's arm, then in the next shot we see that the knife is now 5-6 inches away from Cruise's eye, then the next shot it's cruise that is now inexplicably on top of the villain and then grabs the knife.
What B.S. Terrible movie, huge disappointment.