I loved the movie. Best of the series, and best action movie of the year without a doubt.

I think what you guys need to realize is how intentionally different it is from the rest of the series - because every movie in the series has been different from each other.

1st - twisty, convoluted mystery
2nd - operatic Hong Kong-style action and romance
3rd - gritty and intensely personal

And this one? Is just plain fun. Not an out-and-out action comedy, but more light-hearted than every other so far. The plot is a rollercoaster from start to finish, and it just doesn't bother to delve into the characters or get too emotional. It doesn't intend to.

I think a lot of people's criticisms against it stem from the fact that they just don't understand what it's intending - that they want the movie to be something it's not.

Explained quite adequately in the end.

Why criminal overuse? Kapoor's sole purpose was comic relief and he fulfilled it just fine. Also, I thought Simon Pegg's jokes were pretty funny, and so did the rest of the cinema audience with me. Seems like you were unlucky enough to be in an unresponsive crowd.

Exactly what I meant.

Tone is exactly what differentiates this one from the others. Third one had Ethan Hunt watching the love of his life get murdered before his eyes. That's J.J. Abrams' trademark, combining action and suspense with personal emotional stakes. MI4 had nothing so serious, and was even a bit light-hearted. It had Hunt yelling "Mission... accomplished!!!" And there was definitely something almost-comedic about how one thing after another goes wrong with their plans. They couldn't even use their masks this time, because their mask-making machine broke down for no reason.

I liked III just fine. But for sheer action craftsmanship, MI4 is better.

In other words, you would prefer that Ethan Hunt retire happily and there'll be no more Mission: Impossible movies? Then why are you watching this one?

Too bad. I thought Chow Yun-Fat was criminally underused in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. But the fact is, Kapoor's role is just that. If you want to give him a meatier role - maybe make him the main villain, or something - you are thinking about the script that you want to write, not the movie you're watching.

Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead are movies that Pegg himself wrote (along with Edgar Wright). This is not one of them. Pegg has acted in plenty movies he did not write himself, and he has no problem doing so.

Not a problem to me. Lots of people are not comfortable with putting up public profiles of themselves with their pictures on the internet, why would an assassin and a terrorist do so?

Again, it seems like your problem with the movie is that you have too many unfair expectations of it.