I think Tom Cruise must crazy. The scene with him hanging out of the airplane is very dangerous. It definately gets the blood rising. I saw the Mission Impossible where he hangs outside of skyscraper in Shanghai and I was thoroughly breathless during that scene. I heard somewhere that he didn't use cables or a safety net for the shot. Pure insanity!
Admittedly I haven't seen every installment of the Mission Impossible series. Yet I found myself comparing it to the long list of Bond films that I have seen, some of them multiple times. I wondered is this lighter than the current Bond incarnation? How is it like Bond? Different? After I got over that I began to think about where the film would go. How would Tomcat find a way to complete the Mission Impossible? There were several missions that had to be completed and each was tense. Yet, I found there to be a lot of "techieness" to the film. When they are planning to dive into the centrifuge subsumed into water I got a little bored. The scene at the Opera house was compelling. The centrifuge scene does pick up. Especially when Tomcat loses the special cards and he is forced to use one that is not guaranteed to work. While that's happening he is gasping for air. It is only when he is saved by the double agent that we are released from tension.
The motorcycle sequence is very action packed. But, I noticed as screenwriter, that there was little dialogue. Then I thought that the end of the film would be some kind of collabortive effort to save the British Prime Minister, secure the data, and catch the leading bad guy. I had a good general idea, but it lacked much of the detail that occurred. I didn't see the big face reveal with Cruise behind the mask and I didn't predict that the syndicate was a program founded by British intelligence. Those were plot developments which made the film worth staying for.
The film is a solid action film. The political wrangling and intrigue make watchable franchise edition. I read that they are already talking about the sixth edition. They could market it as MI6. Maybe the Bond franchise would sue?
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