There was something wrong with this film and I couldn't put my finger on it.. I'm not sure if it was because the main villain just wasn't there. In MI3 Philip Seymour Hoffman was an excellent bad guy who you genuinely feared.. This guy was just rubbish. Also Simon Pegg's humour didn't seem to sit well in the general tone of the film. In MI3 he played a small role and it complimented the film well. Here he is one of the team and his general incompetence undermines the seriousness of the film. All the other team members had to undergo rigorous training where as he didn't. Or at least that's the impression you got. All of which is not his fault, just the way he's written in..
On a positive note, the film does have some good action set pieces. Particularly the Dubai sequence with the dust storm/car chase..
Overall better than MI2 but not as good as MI3
Rating ***
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