When a deadly new strain of influenza is hijacked by former CIA agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) and put up for sale to the highest bidder, it's time for Ethan Hunt (enter Cruise, Tom Cruise) and company to come out of temporary retirement to once again attempt the unlikely.
Hunt recruits the beautiful Nyah Hall (an ultra-annoying Thandie Newton) to get close to Ambrose, because she used to go out with him and sort of has a thing for her still. Since everything is telegraphed far in advance, we know that Ethan and Nyah will fall madly in love with eachother and do anything to be together (nice Tom, just nice), just as we know that it's not Tom whose shot at the end. Oops! I'm sorry, did I reveal that, hope I didn't spoil anything for you.
This whole piece of slab is spiced with the usual John Woo two-handed gunplay interlaced with "amazing" stunts and an over-hyped motorbike sequence wich was unbelievably boring. An overrated yuckfest, avoid it like a Kajagogo reunion concert.
Investigation finished: 2000-12-08
Story: 2/10 - None whatsoever, and the funny thing is nobody seems to give a shit.
Acting: 3/10 - Dougray Scott is the only one without the charisma of a grilled cheese sandwich.
Violence: 2/10 - slaughtering braincells as they go along
Nudity: 1/10 - See story above!
Coolness: 0/10 - Cruise doesn't even look cool in sunglasses. This movie lacks all the coolness that John Woo films used to have (or maybe they didn't).
Skid-marks: 6/10 - Plenty, but motorcycles are so daft Mr. Woo.
...a litle something from our surveilance?
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