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Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2006)

This movie gets everything right. The action is fast and furious, the characters are interesting and engaging, and even the love story is effective.Nobody shows the spy game at it's most fun, dangerous, and emotionally gripping as JJ Abrams. This guy is a genius. In his feature debut Abrams revitalizes the disappointing MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE series.
Tom Cruise, who can be hit and miss, knocks this one way out of the park. He definitely brings his A-Game to this show. He is a movie star of the first order. It is a testament to the great actors around him and the strong script that Cruise doesn't monopolize the screen. He is THAT magnetic in this movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman offers a more than worthy adversary. Hoffman's Owen Davien is hands down the best super villain since Alan Rickman nearly stole the show as Hans Gruber in DIE HARD. He is always a step ahead of Cruise's super-spy and is scarifyingly ruthless. The scenes between Cruise and Hoffman snap like a live-wire.
The action is supercharged but most importantly the characters and story are gripping. You truly care about Ethan and his goals this time around and that gives the action scenes immediacy, energy and intensity that was lacking in the first two missions. A GREAT MOVIE THAT WILL LIVE LONG AFTER IT'S OPENING WEEKEND.