An exciting but very disappointing movie

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2004)

As an action adventure this movie was quite good. Cruise is a fantastic talent and John Woo is one of THE best action directors today. However, Mission: Impossible was never meant to be an action adventure. I grew up on the original series, easily one of my all-time favorite series. The show didn't insult the viewers intelligence. Each episode the agents were given a mission, usually to retrieve some information, person, or object, or by neutralizing a threat, and they would do it by conning the bad guys in to screwing themselves over. The action in the original series was very low key, like in real life if the agents had to pull a gun then the mission was effectively blown. It was a smart drama and Mission Impossible 2 wasn't. If a movie is going to be made based on a TV series it should be more loyal to the series.