I can't believe how much potential was wasted here. The reviews on this site are either from people with incredibly low standards, or people/bots that are getting paid to inflate the score. The plot is silly at best, the performances are all surprisingly bad for the actors involved, and the script is laughably terrible even by 1990's action movie standards.

Some of the line deliveries in this movie are baffling. The way 'The White Widow' (who is not a threatening character at all, leaving one to wonder why she has that alias) speaks on a microphone to a room full of people is one of the most unrealistic and oddly framed soliloquies I've ever seen in a film. She talks to a crowd of people in a way that literally nobody ever in the history of people has ever spoken to a room full of people. That's just one example of the absolutely terrible acting and script.

I normally love Cruise, Cavil, Pegg, Baldwin, and Rhames, but somehow this director managed to get career-worst performances out of all of them simultaneously. That's the most impressive thing about this movie. It could have been so good but the contrived plot and absolutely awful dialogue ruin the entire experience.

There are a lot of straight rip-offs from Christopher Nolan throughout, including the score which wants to be Hans Zimmer so much it becomes almost comedic. The thing about Christopher Nolan is that his scripts are for thinking people, not hamsters. This script feels like it was written by JJ Abrams doing Star Wars - it's THAT bad. This film wants to be a Nolan film so badly that it's fairly embarrassing to think about.

There are no jokes in the movie save for one at the very beginning which falls flat, something that hurt me deeply coming from Simon Pegg who is a comedic genius. I don't blame him though, even the best comedic actors would fail with this awful writing.

The only reason I'm giving it 5/10 is because the stunts were impressive. That said, the stunts aren't necessary to the plot at all and it's really silly to be impressed that they didn't use stuntmen, rather than be impressed that the stunts worked for the plot. They did not.

Terrible dialogue, and shockingly bad performances by a group of normally stellar actors. 5/10 is actually a bit generous here.