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Another entertaining Tom Cruise action flick of the same make as the previous ones. Using the same tried-and-true tropes, they still managed to produce a somewhat engaging script. The characters grow more and more on me, especially Benji, perfectly portrayed by Simon Pegg. Tom Cruise is his old reliable self, too. He is just very, very good at what he does. The story meandered a bit and had some convolutions that bored me. If you need what feels like half an hour of exposition at the beginning to set up the plot, you are doing something not quite right. There was not need to make things THAT complicated.
That said, the action sequences were of very high quality, as always. I wouldn’t have believed it if anyone had told me they could make vehicle chases seem even mildly interesting at this point, but those parts didn’t even bore me too much. In fact, I LOVED that they featured so much of my beloved home town, London (I think my dad even saw them film, back then), in an extended chase. Still, there was quite a bit of material that needlessly lengthened the film. The scrip needs tightening. The editing should do the rest to get rid of the excess runtime. I did have a few moments where I lost interest due to lack of tension.
All in all, it’s a pretty decent action film, though. 3/5
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