I'm just glad Abrams didn't include elements of Lost, his renowned TV series into MI. Wouldn't you hate an ending where Ethan Hunt(Tom Cruise) would be marooned on an island for the next 3 installments of MI?
Boring beginning - The last thing you want to watch in the first 5 minutes of MI, is Tom Cruise crying and whining. It's so Alias! You know 2hrs down into the movie, you're gonna be whisked back to this very scene.
I remember in the beginning of MI2, Tom Cruise was hanging off a cliff, posing in the hottest pair of sunglasses you just feel like running out to buy at that very moment! The cool factor, that was sorely lacking in MI3.
Lacking the X-Factor - It's not enough to pull out a Harley ala Top Gun, an orange Lamborghini, a quick escape in a speedboat nor a helicopter which seemed to be shot to pieces but reappeared in tack! MI fans are demanding and Abrams failed to realise this.
The very element of MI is to watch how the mission is carried out with ingenuity, state-of-the-art gadgets, complex choreography while looking effortlessly cool.
A-Team tops MI3 - IMHO even the A-Team had a better formula. In a mission to recover a valuable object in unfamiliar location, Hunt did some dangerous jumps, disappeared and reappeared in with the object in hand. WTF?? The whole point was to see how Hunt and his team would overcome this ultimate challenge!
I can imagine American Idol judge Simon Cowell saying "Boohoo, totally cabaret, boring karaoke, you're not original enough". Ditto.
Alias's cast recycled
- Arvin Sloane - Musgrave
- Jack Bristow - Brassel
- Sydney Bristow - Julia
- Vaughn - Ethan Hunt
- Marshall - Benji
- Dixon - Luther Strickell
- Sark - Owen Davian!!! Haha...
