Fun, clever, not too deep

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2013)

This was a fun movie, with a bit of cleverness in the plot
Now, if you did not previously know that Tom Cruise loves airplanes and motorcycles, this movie would surely tell you that. A very large part of the movie is devoted to filming Tom on aircraft and motorcycles.
Andrea Riseborough achieves the odd effect of looking as if she is CG when she is real. I was absolutely persuaded that she was CG at one point, but now I don't think so.
Tom also prefers younger women. You see that in this movie. The love interests are much younger than he.
I think there is a danger when the performer has this much control over a movie for the thing to be too narrowly focused on what he personally enjoys.
Nevertheless, it was a fun, peppy movie -- a lot of action, good photography, good special effects, all that stuff we expect from a contemporary Hollywood movie. It's not Shakespeare or anything, but that's not what it's for, not to be intellectual or overly thoughtful, just a diversion.
I saw it in 2D. I'm not sure 3D was available, but that would be a good idea, given the number of scenes of aircraft going through complex spaces at high speed.