AI program goes wrong and connects with a nihilistic nut job, who years before killed the girl that Ethan Hunt loved. Soon everyone races to get a key that will allow them to control the program.
This is a collection of fantastic set pieces barely connected by the above waffer thin plot. The film some how charms (for awhile) thanks to the great cast who make us believe that there is something here when there really isn't.
The film weirdly works until we finally get to meet the human villain, Gabriel, who not person but the most unbeatable villain from a video game. He is godlike and unbeatable and zero fun. More so when he just wants to kill everyone in the world just because.
The fun factor doesn't completely disappear until we get to the hand shoveled steam train and the film's plotting goes into the crapper. Gabriel kills the train crew and makes it so the brakes (at least in the engine) won't work. He then goes back into the runaway train to conduct business. The why and how of the train continues to run when no one can feed coal into the engine is not explained, nor is how the train stays on the tracks while taking curves at speed. We also never get an explanation of how people know they are on a runaway train and are not plussed by it.
Everyone wants to know why this film under performed at the box office- because what little plot there is makes zero sense, at its best its shitty decades old scifi cliche, the human villain is a cipher, the AI villain is spray of colors and after almost 3 hours the film doesn't end it stops.
It's a great looking dessert that has lovely whip cream on the outside and rotten turds on the inside.
What a disappointment- more so that I really liked this up until the party scene when it all began to slide.
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