MI4, 5, 6, whatever. I lost track or stopped caring much about the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies with the disappointment of MI2.
I think anyone that has been a Tom Cruise fan, or a Mission Impossible fan, loved the first one. For me, all sequels since have been very forgettable. There is nothing in particular wrong with MI4, the action sequences are good, the special effects are good, the acting is good. It’s just overall incredibly…blah. Other than the occasional action scene it’s rather predictable and boring. It’s cookie cutter movie making and it doesn’t do anything for me.
I used to be a big Tom Cruise fan. Now I’d rather see some other actor in any movie he stars in, because it’s annoying how exactly the same he is in every single movie he makes. It’s like he plays himself; arrogant, over confident, and either grinning way to much or brooding. He seems to no longer have a personality in between. And what’s with the trademark running scene where he has cartoon Karate hands? Does he really think he can run faster that way? Or does he think we are so dumb that we will think he’s running faster that way? My guess is he thinks we are that dumb.
MI4 is a decent movie as high budget big star movies go. If that’s all it takes to get you off, watch it. And be prepared to shrug your shoulders after and say, “Meh, it was okay…I guess.”
If Tom Cruise ever came out of the closet, I’d give him a better review!
6/10