RPDimitrov

The whole vibe around this movie was not great anyway and I don't think anyone expected to do better than the original trilogy. Even with lowered expectation you cannot help yourself comparing it and it doesn't look well. The director has tried to make it look like the Soderberg movies by copying his style, but it didn't work out as well and it looks a bit parodical. There is no excitement in the plot and it falls flat - you cannot feel a proper build up to something and character development is lackluster at best. The idea about the heist was decent and there was some good twists, but mostly things seemed forced. Things looked overplanned and you never get the feeling that they might get caught. My biggest issue was casting. Sandra Bullock looked artificial in the role and didn't seem to give it her all. Rihanna is completely out of place and I think they didn't give her many lines, because she was just bad at acting. Richard Armitrage was not nasty enough to be disliked and James Corden had no place in that movie - he was just comical. I would have to say that Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter were great and if they got a few more of the roles as right as that the whole movie would have been a different animal.

Bottom line is that it is not as charismatic as the George Clooney trilogy.

Even if they were purposely trying to make a bad movie, they wouldn't have made this thing. It just makes no sense and all of the charisma of The Rock cannot save it. The plot is dumb and the general premise is obviously a rip off from Die Hard. But there are no funny scenes, the action is dull and characters are flat. You don't care about any of them and it is plain obvious that the Hong Kong setting is only used to sell the movie to the Chinese audience. The effects were bad and you should be trying to make Tom Cruise's stunts from MI in front of a green screen. It just doesn't work. Honestly I cannot see what they spent $125,000,000 on, except for The Rock's salary.