Great Action, Terrible Script

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2000)

Tom Cruise made 2 major mistakes when producing this movie. #1. The Script! The plot was sooooooo weak and boring! It had nothing to do with the concept of Mission Impossible. It was a James Bond movie, cept the main character was named Ethan Hunt. #2. Supporting Cast! This movie stars Tom Cruise, Tom cruise, Cruise Tom, Mot Esiurc, TOM CrUisE, and Thomas Cruise. The supporting cast gets barley any lines, I mean the only good actors in it were Anthony Hopkins and Ving Rhames, and they literally had 4 minutes of screentime each!
Now the plot in this movie drags on for 90 minutes. Luckily John Woo saves it a little by putting in some sweet cinematography and some good music. But even he couldn't save this TERRIBLE script and boring insulting to the audience plot. There is no action until the end of the movie, but when the action starts it is INSANELY awesome. John Woo is by far the best at capturing the intensity, and is brave enough to shoot a shot for more then 10 seconds, unlike most American directors who like to cut a lot to save money. As a huge John Woo fan, I was not letdown at all but was instead impressed as the action in this movie is TOPKNOTCH. But it just doesn't seem right for a Mission Impossible movie, I mean the whole reason the first one was cool was because of the complicated plot and the flashbacks, not the little boring train helicopter thing ripped off from SUPERCOP at the end!
John Woo deserved a better script to work with, but hey I forgot this is Hollywood not Hong Kong. After all these years Hollywood still thinks audiences are UNINTELLIGENT, and can get away with saving a buck or 2 to buy a crappy script. The potential of this movie was incredible, but even the god himself, John Woo, couldn't save this movie from the script (which was written for Tom Cruises ego).
Watch Face Off, Hard Boiled, and THE KILLER if you want to see some action and CHARACTERS.
My grade: B-