joshmroth

This movie started out promising but by the end, it just felt like being robbed of two and a half hours. I am a big fan of the MI movies (including MI2, which people seem to hate) and I could appreciate this movie for the few scenes that it did right, but it treats the audience like idiots in its bland, repetitive storyline (how many times do we need to hear the words "the key" and "the entity"? It was as if the writers of this movie just gave up on their jobs when they wrote this. Easily the weakest MI movie ever filmed. It had me staring at my watch every 20 minutes. As others have mentioned, the character development in this movie is also truly awful. I have barely any interest in seeing Part Two of Dead Reckoning at this point. The high scores this movie is getting absolutely baffle me. This movie by no means deserves a score higher than a 6 or a 6.5.

I wanted this to be good. I'm not a huge fan of Bert's standup, but I do love his whole Machine bit and thought this was a great idea for a movie - fusing his comedy routine into an action comedy. But the jokes mostly fell flat and boy did this movie drag on ...and on... and on. It had surprisingly very little action scenes and the jokes they wrote in mostly fell flat. It was just a lazily written movie down to the excruciatingly boring dialogue. It's been a long time since I saw a movie so bad that I was looking at my watch constantly throughout but that's exactly what happened here. I wished I could have gotten that two hours of my life back, because this was awful. It gets 3 stars because there was a chuckle or two in the movie and at least a few decent enough scraps of action sequence, but it could have been so much more.