This is 7th in the series of MI films, which have done rather well at the box office. This one, despite the hype and the earnings and the reviews, does not quite measure up to their earlier standards.
This is Part 1, so there is at least a Part 2. But this part closes neither with a satisfying ending as a movie should, nor with a cliffhanger to make you wait breathlessly for the next part like in a TV serial.
And how long can you wait, anyway?
The plot, if you can call it that, is hardly original, the music is too loud, and the visuals, barring a few, are not spectacular.
Given sufficient funding, computer graphics can create anything these days. So, after ‘Jurassic Park’ where they created convincingly real dinosaurs, and ‘Avatar’, which dazzled us with a whole new world, nothing amazes anyone anymore.
Remember the film ‘Face Off’? In that, the two main characters switch identities by changing their faces, and that creates an intense storyline.
Here, so many characters change their identities by ripping off their faces so many times that you simply stop caring, or even being surprised.