Movie Review – Mission: Impossible III – Action Packed
Super-spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from active duty to train new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he’s ever faced – Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team – his old friend Luther Strickell (Ving Rhames), transportation expert Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), background operative Zhen (Maggie Q), and fresh recruit Lindsey (Keri Russell) – to travel the globe pursuing Davian and rescue Hunt’s love, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).
It’s Mission Impossible, it’s Tom Cruise, don’t expect anything serious or groundbreaking, but do expect a good solid, fairly thrilling action movie.
It does keep you on your toes, and Ethan is a little more human in this movie, plus of course the requisite guns, toys, gadgets, slick moves and explosions we’ve come to expect from Mission Impossible.
It’s running a respectable 6.9 on IMDB at the moment.
The action spans a few continents, has a typically nasty sadistic badguy, not much a plot, but thankfully is less about Tom Cruise (Hello, “Mission Impossible II – I’m Tom Cruise”), and more about the movie.
Not much acting is required for this kind of film, but there is enough there, a little plot development, a little human emotion and a lot of action, that’s pretty much how I would sum it up.
Oh yah, did I mention lots of explosions?
The grandscale set peices are very good, I have to say I didn’t expect much from the movie, but I was pretty impressed nevertheless.
Well worth a watch for a good bit of brainless action.
The end however made me sick, sick sick, it was so wrong, I wanted to kick the screen in.
I’d give it an entertaining trash 6/10.
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Was there any stunt jumping on couches?
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Oh, Lionel beat me to the punch, I was going to ask if there was a scene where Ethan Hunt was jumping up and down on an exploding couch! Darn it!
hee hee!
The ads for it haven’t grabbed my attention enough for me to bother seeing it at the movies. I might wait for it to come on TV.
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Haha, good one, Dabido! I did consider adding in my last comment that the couch was hanging from a helicopter up 10 storeys high…
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nice movie – saw it last week. it certainly beats poseidon for entertainment value!
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dammit it’s been out here in london for more than 2 weeks already and i still haven’t watched that!
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yeah, entertaining trash, can’t agree more on that.
Laurence Fishburne was awful.
Lionel, Dabido: Apparently the couch jumping is old. Check this out, damn funny! Oh, for those of you who doesn’t hate Tom yet, take a look.
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1687784/
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Spiller – I have no idea what he was doing … and I can’t figure out why it’s bad! Surely that video isn’t any reason to hate Tom Cruise … probably a reason to pity him that he can’t dance … but … you know …
Lionel – I like the idea fo Tom jumping on a couch hanging from a helicopter! KEWL!
[Can I add an explosion as well for good measure!??]
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I watched it last night and oh God, my head is still pounding now! Didn’t really enjoy it.