As an old school M:I devotee I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the original series fro time to time and thoroughly enjoy it.

I also cringe at the mental gymnastics over the plot of this new 2-part movie…. You’ve got an evil AI on board a Russian sub that tricks the crew into torpedoing itself. The crew all dies but the AI survives onboard the sunken sub. And despite being stuck on a blown-up sub at the bottom of the ocean the AI is still a serious global threat. On top of that a two-part physical key that is the only thing that can disable the AI somehow made it off the sub and everybody is scrambling to find them. Once the keys are recovered somebody (clearly Tom Cruises character) will have to get onto the sunken sub and destroy the AI.

Why doesn’t the US or UK just go shoot a few more torpedoes at the sunken sub and obliterate the AI once and for all? The need to suspend so much reality for this plot drives me nuts.