I was glad that they surrounded Tom Cruise with such a large supporting cast, because it distracted me from the fact that I was watching a movie with Tom Cruise in it. The start of the movie felt very much like an episode of Alias. I was happy to see that Greg Grunberg showed up as he does in every J.J. Abrams directed project, and it was nice that he registered his boredom with Cruise. I was also happy that Jonathan Rhys Meyers was in the movie, because he was pretty. I really really really wanted Philip Seymour Hoffman to kill Cruise.