With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
It's fun. It's laughable. It has moments of excitement, moments of sheer idiocy and moments of sheer idiotic excitement.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Jun 2002
rotten:
Despite Cruise's attempts here to be Byronic, there's something strenuous about his soulfulness; he turns everything, even repose, into calisthenics.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
16 Jan 2003
rotten:
Woo's hysterically hyper visuals and boytoy gimmickry can't camouflage the emptiness of the enterprise.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
For all my profound reservations about the whole project, I wound up liking it more, or, at least disliking it less, than I had anticipated. Thandie Newton is the biggest reason.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
27 Apr 2007
rotten:
Woo lays on his own particular high-octane stylishness so thick the results edge perilously toward self-parody.