Starts off slow, mediocre middle, fantastic ending!

Rating: 7/10 (31 August 2008)

The summary says it all. The start of the film was really slow and boring. I saw right through their paper thin plot and wondered why I bothered spending time and money to watch this. Well, I decided to stick it out and I'm glad I did.
Robert Downy Jr. and Jay Baruchel carried the middle of the film. Downy Jr's impersonation was hilarious as a black man and all the things that he said; he was really convincing as an Australian too. And in the end, Ben Stiller picked up the film and completely rocked it out. The action, intensity and humor was all nicely melded together in the end. That, in my opinion, is what makes the film just awesome!
On a side note, Tom Cruise, Tobey Maguire and Matthew McConaheughy were all spectacular. I was really surprised to see Cruise step out of the box and depart from his normal character roles with this one. However, he managed to pull it off, was hilarious and did an awesome job! I prefer to see him as an action hero instead of some fat, slimy, greedy boss who's every other word is the F word. Hopefully he won't portray this type of character again (one time, for him, is more than enough!).
All in all, the directing was spectacular and the action packed scenes along with the explosions and stuff were really, really good. More plot would have been nice, but I suppose that's something for them to work on, should they make a sequel.
7/10