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TallSilhouette said:

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning: MI's been on a hot streak over its last few films and this one looked like it would be just as good. I gotta say, I was really disappointed with this one. The editing is terrible, the shot choices are often just bizarre, the sound design is lacking, the choreography is dull and uninspired, the insufferably long stretches of dry exposition nearly put me to sleep and felt completely out of place, many character decisions were strange and unnecessary, the humor and wit of previous entries was all but gone, the more I think about it the more problems I have with this entry and I don't know what the fuck the critics see in it. About the only redeeming qualities of this one are the setpieces in the third act, and even those were spoiled to hell and back in all the advertising.

I’ve not seen the latest, but I’ve enjoyed every single film in the series to date. Even the John Woo one nerdy types decided to hate. Although, my favourite is the third film, with Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman). I hate ticking clock film plot mechanics, they’re cheesy and cliche, but interesting writing + Cruise and Hoffman’s acting made the gun to the head countdown one of the  greatest scenes in a spy thriller, ever.