No benchmark for James Bond...

Rating: 6/10 (14 November 2019)

Positive:

Ethan Hunt has humanity (love, suffering, fear, failure)
hard & fast action
Philip Seymour Hoffman as villain
sporadic humor

Negative:

excessive action that prevents you from getting involved in the personal level of the movie
poor script; the anticipatory intro, in which his wife is "massacred", puts the film rather in a dark mood, instead of building tension and is resolved in the end again by the MI classic mask trick
simple-minded/less creative story; his wife is abducted and he must try to rescue her + obligatory mole side story
lack of "uniqueness" (except for the meanwhile exhausted mask trick); It misses interesting/accessible team members and the "impossible mission", which must be mastered by sophistication & technical equipment