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There's a couple of parts in the movie where the director purposely has the camera directly on Tom Cruise's face so you know it's him doing the stuntwork. It almost took me out of the movie at a couple of points.
You'll probably remember the shot (this isn't a spoiler) where Ethan Hunt is climbing a rope to the landing skids of an in-flight helicopter. The camera is locked down and spends about 30 seconds just showing him carefully try to transition from the rope to the skid. It looked less like a well-edited action scene with super spy Ethan Hunt and more like a documentary showing Tom Cruise contemplate every inch he moves with a look on his face that says "this might be the one that finally kills me."
I'm glad they did it that way because it's different, but it broke the flow a little for me at certain parts when I go "Oh yeah, that's Tom Cruise really HALO diving" or "hey that's Tom Cruise riding around the Arc de Triomphe on a motorcycle into oncoming traffic without a helmet". The movie was awesome though. The bathroom fight scene was amazing and the film looked gorgeous. Good acting, good twists, fantastic pacing. It rocked.
That chase sequence in the middle of the movie with the kidnapping is one of my favorite action scenes in a long time. When you thought it was over, there was another level of chase about to begin...and then another almost to the point of exhaustion. I love shit like that. Christopher McQuarrie made one of my favorite movies, Way of the Gun many years ago and I love that he's still around...and getting better.
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