Maybe there is something to this Scientology

Rating: 9/10 (31 May 2006)

The latest of the Mission: Impossible film series (very, very loosely related to the '60s TV show), which has restored the title's credibility.
After a terrible Mission: Impossible 2 and years in development, JJ Abrams' writing and direction have delivered, along with Tom Cruise, a great slice of movie greatness. A fairly easy-to-follow, yet still sufficiently "spy-complex", plot is good with a deadly villain and (as usual) superhuman Ethan Hunt.
From the start with one of cinema's greatest opening sequences, it's clear that this film isn't going to take the easy route. Especially when a new girl gets her brain fried by Cruise and a defibrilator. Then there's the jaw-dropping set pieces like sliding down a massive building. Well done Tom, maybe there is something to this Scientology stuff...
At the moment, you're wondering why I've given it 9 not 10. Well, for one thing, I spent two hours watching a film that pretty much centred around "the Rabbit's Foot", and by the time I get to the end, I'm still as clueless as I was at the start as to what on Earth the Foot is (except it's a "biohazard"). Then there's Ethan's superhuman abilities to run through armies of gunfire and escape with a small cut. Then there's the overly sweet ending where Hunt and wife are fine and perfectly in love and seem to have gotten over near-death. But all in all, the mission impossible of recovering the franchise after the dreaful M:I-2 has been completed.