This was the first Mission Implausible film I've seen and as a 52 year old man who tends to go for social realist dramas and not multiplex fodder (pretentious, moi?), I didn't go into this film expecting to love it. And I didn't love it by any means. But, despite the 2.75 hours running time - not including the 35 mins 'trailers' (ie mostly adverts) - I was never bored. I even kind of understood what was going on even though I'd never seen an MI film before. The action scenes were very impressive. Did they blow my head off? No, because it was all implausible nonsense. But to be fair it's one of the best action films I've seen. The best Tom Cruise film since the equally implausible Top Gun Maverick. And kudos to Cruise - he might be as mad as a box of frogs but Crikey he immerses himself in his projects. 7 out of ten.
