Watched the new Mission Impossible film at the cinema yesterday... a mixed bag, I'm afraid. When it's good it's great but damn there's a lot of dreary stuff to get through before you get to the good bits. I have muchly liked this films series (certainly more than certain James Bond flicks recently!) but there's so much dreary and over-complicated exposition for the first hour (damn, it's nearly three hours long!) and it's rather grim in tone, lacking in the fun and humour that other entries had.
Yes, the great action scenes DO happen (eventually) and most certainly live up to the stuff that's gone before but I have to say that it's my second least favourite MI film (after the second one, widely regarded as the lowpoint) and, seeing as it's been touted as the concluding installment of the saga the last five minutes are, well... disappointingly inconclusive?
Again, it's not a stinker by any means but I'm not keen to watch it again anytime soon, unlike other entries which gave me such a buzz...
