Brits in Hollywood?? Alan Rickman yes, but the rest NO THANKS...

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2006)

Philip Seymour Hoffman is excellent and you can even believe the action scenes when he kicks Tom Cruise around. I saw him a week before in In Cold Blood, but after 5 seconds I just saw the character, not the actor.
With Tom Cruise you begin to see trademark mannerisms, and see the actor rather than the character, but you don't care because he has got star quality.
BUT why is it that Simon Pegg just sticks out like a sore thumb? I just remembered zombies outside a pub every time he showed up on screen. One minute you are in Mission Impossible land and the next minute the illusion has gone and you are down The Winchester. It was like John Cleese popping up in a Bond film. "What is HE doing here??" Maybe it is because I am a Brit and when I hear a solitary English accent in a crowd of Americans it really stands out. I used to think that it was a bit off that every time you heard an English accent you knew that Bruce Willis was going to sort them out. But not any more.
Anyway,whether Simon Pegg did a great job or just reprised "Oh God, what am I going to do now?", I wish Hollywood would keep to the stereotype of the familiar but slightly odd and so sinister Brits. Brits do Carry On films, bits and pieces for Channel 4 or get shot by Bruce. Anything else just does not work for me. I don't pay £8 to see the same old familiar faces, I want a bit of glamour and something different.
AND PLEASE Don't even mention Thandie Newton in MI 2