I thought it actually was original in a few ways. The type of characters that both Cruise and Blunt played both being the most obvious ones. I did not expect Cruise to be anything like he was at the beginning of the movie, and I can't remember the last female character that utterly badass (particularly one who wasn't just written as a man with boobs). He was the protagonist, but I thought she was the hero, beginning to end. And that's not something you see done a lot or done well.
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