The bad guy in the piece (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is apprehended easily early on, but escapes their grasp and spearheads a campaign of terror against Ethan and, well, all of humankind, involving something called the rabbit’s foot. What is the rabbit’s foot? Doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you suspect several people, including agency bureaucrat John Brassel (Laurence Fishburne), as being the criminal mastermind, so the surprises abound.

So does the broken glass, as Ethan and his team are sent to various exotic locales like Germany, Vatican City, and Shanghai for no apparent reason other to have a cool setting for the next batch of action, intrigue, and smash-ups. Stellar performances? Perhaps Hoffman’s, which is nothing at all like his recent Oscar-winning turn as Truman Capote, but is as cold-hearted and menacing as a man with his build could possibly deliver. Also fabulous is Simon Pegg (Shaun from ‘Shaun of the Dead’) as Benji, a wryly wisecracking tech who remotely helps Ethan through a particularly sticky situation. Russell, Q, and even Monaghan are also more than just eye candy, as each is called on to deliver in the action sequences.

The pace rarely lets up except for an insipid rooftop dialogue between Cruise and Monaghan. Rhames, Hoffman, and Fishburne get in plenty of laugh-out-loud quips, too. The effects are great, especially a sequence on a long bridge highway over a portion of the ocean that involves crashed and flying cars, a drone plane, a helicopter, and loads of explosions. So get a large popcorn and a friend or three and see this on the big screen.

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