It starts, it goes, it ends; there are stunts in it, and action, and actors. Tom Cruise is starting to show his age by looking suspiciously young. Simon Pegg has been given a bigger role, presumably so the audience have someone to like. Ving Rhames pops in and out as does Jeremy Renner; either could really have been cut from the film. Rebecca Ferguson has a more important part, as one of JJ Abrahams leggy, willowy, slender brunettes. She's okay - it's a gift role but I really missed Paula Patton. In fact, I missed many things from Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, which now seems like an aberration in this highly mediocre series.
Everything just seems so tired - a subplot about trying to shut down IMF, Sean Harris' underwhelming villain, the throwbacks to other movies (going to Casablanca, ripping off the Albert Hall sequence from The Man Who Knew Too Much), the culture lite (Nessum Dorma), the stock MacGuffins (a USB with a list of agents), the baddies (agents gone rogue), the blonde Aryan assassins... It's like no one in this film really cared. Alec Baldwin seems to be sending it up.
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