Another excellent installment! :D

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2006)

JJ Abrams is awesome! If you're an Alias or Lost fan, you have no reason in the world not to watch and thoroughly enjoy this near perfect popcorn thriller. Think Alias, fused with the Mission: Impossible (for that, read Tom Cruise) style and a huge budget to play with...with a talented and good-looking cast and this is what you get.
The acting, let's be honest, won't win any Oscars but was more than adequate for this film. Philip Seymour Hoffman exudes creepy power and sinister criminal genius in his role as Davian, an international terrorist; Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup play their spy movie stereotypes with vigour; supporting team members Ving Rhames et al play their respective parts with comedy, loyalty and downright coolness and as ever, Tom Cruise becomes the archetypal screen hero he seems to born to play, complete with tears, yelling and adrenaline-fuelled rushes towards the goal.
This film WILL have you on the edge of your seat (at the bridge part that you preview in the trailer, my hand was almost shaking in excitement), comprised of a handful of mini missions that'll leave the kid in you grinning, and expect all the questions of loyalty, emotion and righteous anger from the man behind Alias. Cinematography is brilliant, picking all the right angles to accentuate the angles and the score by Michael Giacchino (again from the Alias crew...if it ain't broke....) is spot on. All in all just brilliant. As perfect an action film as I've seen in a quite a while and if you go in expecting an octane, high-kicking rush, rather than a dramatic expose on espionage :P you won't be disappointed! I hope you enjoy half as much as I did.