My favorite so far, with about a million asterisks on that statement.

Love the opening scene, love the villain, love the team camaraderie, the story was exciting, even the romance was sweet dammit! Michael Giacchino the king that you are!

The action set pieces were also great, you know, whenever they weren't blurry as shit with a bunch of shaky cam. The writing was pretty good, except when it wasn't! Luther asking Ethan if he's ever slept with his sister is the exact moment I ed what Kurtzman and Orci are capable of. Lindsey's message suddenly being viewable at the most plot-convenient time without any explanation as to why was clever foreshadowing for R2-D2 randomly waking up to provide the final piece of Luke's map. Again, it's like poetry, sort of, they rhyme.

Odd that the movie randomly decides to come out against neoconservatism in the last 20 minutes. Like, cool, but it would've been cooler if this was the theme of the entire movie instead of just being thrown in as a lazy surface level Bush-era critique, you know?

Real shame Maggie Q and Laurence Fishburne aren't gonna be in more of these movies. I hope the hilarious way Tom Cruise runs at the end of this comes back.