Teaching Fellow in Film & Television Studies at the University of Warwick

2006
Saw an advance screening of this back in 2006 and it blew my mind. I distinctly telling my friends at school how the new Mission Impossible movie was amazing and was going to be the film of the summer. JJ really had us all in a chokehold in the mid-2000s.
Anyway, 19 years later, it’s basically fine. The Rome sequence is brilliant and Phillip Seymour Hoffman steals every scene he’s in (as always). But I was surprised how so much of this is dull and ugly. The style of the action scenes reminded a lot of Die Hard 4, but even that film is better.