Mission Impossible: III
Tom Cruise is back with the third installment directed and written by J.J. Abrams (Alias and Lost) and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Keri Russell.
If this movie wasn’t directed by J.J. Abrams, I wouldn’t have wanted to watch it. I loved the first movie when it came out. It was a good summer blockbuster thriller. The second movie was really stupid and to me seemed like I was watching Ronin. It was the same plot. Tom Cruise also freaks me out now, but I had to watch it because of Abrams. I am really glad I did.
This movie was tons of fun to watch. It was like watching the first one again. It had a plot, conspiracies, cool gadgets and crazy fighting. I loved them scaling walls to break into super secret places, hiding from cameras and posing as priests. There is also super crazy part where they are falling down the sides of high rises head first while shooting at bad guys that made me go “oooh!” when it happened. A lot of it reminded me of watching Alias, with the fighting and gadgets.
When I saw the trailers, I didn’t think I would believe Philip Seymour Hoffman as a bad guy. He sounds like a dork in the previews, but he is believable in the movie.
The guy from Shaun of the Dead was a tech guy who was the equivalent of Marshall from Alias. He was funny and it made the movie have some lighter moments instead of all of it being super intense Tom Cruise moments.
Speaking of being intense, Tom Cruise really likes to do his own stunts. There was one scene, that is shown in the trailers, where an explosion blows him up against the car. It looked like it really happened and it looked like it hurt a lot. There is another scene where he has to run 3/4 mile down the road. We watch him run the entire time. That’s a lot of running! He does make super goofy faces when he runs. That made me laugh.
I read reviews where the movie didn’t have a plot, but I thought it did. I don’t want to give too much away, but I thought it was pretty decent. There was a decent plot, lots of cool fights, good gadgets, great break-ins, and a little bit of humor.
Grade: B+
I finally got around to watching this movie via the wonders of the digital cable.
Tom Cruise, as we all know, is totally insane. This makes it a little hard for me to watch any movie that he’s in. But, this one was probably worth it.
I like Ving Rhames and the guy from Shaun of the Dead, plus surly Laurence Fishburne as the director of whatever fake spy agency Tom Cruise works for. I actually thought a lot of the action sequences were pretty lame, aside from the really awesome one on the bridge where the terrorists attack the convoy to rescue Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I liked the foamy stuff they sprayed on the side of the armored car that made it all brittle. I was also very impressed with their armed UAV drone. I’m totally getting one to fly around my house and keep the neighbors away.
This movie wasn’t as bad as MI:2, but not nearly as good as the first one. 3 stars from me.