Probably because the other MIs were so good (except for 3, which was just awful), this movie seemed like it was rehashing old ideas and trying to tie up too many loose ends from the whole franchise. Sometimes it's better just to let characters and old plot lines fade into memory.

Not that Alec Baldwin was a bad choice to play the bureaucrat, but McQuarrie went too far in trying to make him a badass fighter. Ving Rhames, at times, just seemed like he was trying to get over with his scenes. Pegg and Monaghan overacted while Cavill tried too hard to underact his role as superspy colossus. Vanessa Kirby made a great addition as the White Widow and pretty much stole every scene she was in. Angela Bassett, likewise, makes a much better hardened bureaucrat than Alec Baldwin. And Tom Cruise was Tom Cruise (not an insult or compliment, you either like him or not).