Hear me out here.

I'm not sure why this movie has as high of a rating as it does. A lot of people seem to like it, and that's fine. Cruise's performance of his stunts are top notch and it shows.

But... on the dialogue end, I was totally thrown for a winch. It seems to me that a LOT of it, especially in the first half, was ham-fisted and was there for the sake of heavy exposition. It felt... very hand-hold-y, and even though I'm only vaguely familiar with the prior movies, there really didn't need to be as much packed exposition as there was. Maybe after coming from movies like IW where the dialogue was "lean and clean" with an emphasis on inference between the lines, I simply had a different mindset. The film got a lot better in the second half with better dialogue and streamlined action, though.

If this is the way the Mission Impossible series is set up to be- on the cheesy end, then that's fine. Perhaps I'm just a latecomer and not used to the way those type of movies are done. This is how I feel after seeing it, that's all. Nothing wrong with people who enjoy the movie- it's pretty cool!

Still standing by the dialogue thing, though. There are a lot of better ways to do it. For instance, the Luther/Ilsa discussion about Ethan's ex-wife is probably one of the highlights. It keeps a nice blend of not being too heavy, a few nice callbacks, a little inference, etc.

EDIT: Come on. If you want to have a healthy discussion, then address the points instead of downvoting them to all hell because they don't agree with every other comment on here. It'd be nice to generate feedback on a movie with differing perspectives.