Philip Seymour Hoffman is the only reason I saw this film. I wanted to see him playing a villain and he did not disappoint. He took what he was given and made something amazing out of it. He was criminally underused. They had no idea what to do with him and the end he meets is anticlimactic in the bad way, so much so that as soon as he was dispatched I turned on the movie counter so I knew how much time was left.

The rest of it was big and dumb.

There’s an odd cut toward the end where Julia, Ethan Hunt’s wife, is shown cracking a smile when she hears that Ethan will be killed in front of her. There doesn’t seem to be any mention of this anywhere else, so I must’ve read into it wrong. I hate the fact that I still have to think about a movie that thought it was a good idea to give a hamming-it-up performance by Laurence Fishburn more screen time than Hoffman.