The movie starts off with a countdown by Owen Davian (Hoffman) to shoot Julia (Monaghan) with Ethan, also captured, watching and pleading for her life.

Rewind: Ethan Hunt is in semi retirement and is an instructor for IMF. He is in the process of getting engaged to Julia (MM) when he receives a call to rescue one of his students, Lindsey (Keri Russell) from the clutches of the dangerous black marketer, Davian. Ethan Hunt, Luther, Declan (Rhys-Meyers) and the beautiful Zen (Maggie Q) go on the mission to rescue Lindsey in Berlin.

With all his sudden and secret travels bothering Julia, Ethan spontaneously gets married to her at the hospital she works at. The sequence is sweet. All this time his team is always advising Ethan not to have a real relationship.

The mission to rescue Linsey is successful to a point but ends up being a failure. After a verbal sit-down, Ethan and the team get the news that Davian will be at the Vatican. They devise a plan to kidnap him and to get information about an unknown item termed as "Anti-god" by one of the IMF desk operatives. This item is being put on the market for $850M. They do kidnap him at the vatican and bring him back to the US. Davian's people attack the caravan on the bridge which leads to some spectacular action scenes. Davian escapes and immediatley has Julia kidnapped just as Ethan gets there.

He calls Ethan and gives him 48 hours to get the "Rabbit's Foot" which the IMF guy named Anti-god. Ethan goes to Shanghai to get this from a secure facility.

The rest of the movie races towards the end through many twists and turns. Cruise is impressive. Hoffman is good not great. The action scenes are top notch. The action scenes on the bridge (I assume to the Florida Keys) are spectacular.

The movie is fast paced, has great action and is thoroughly enjoyable. I rate this just below the first one and above the second one.

The ending in this movie is more tame compared to the first two. JJ Abrams has done a very good job. A worthy successor to De Palma and John Woo.

A

outside of some stupidity and cheesiness and well ... the police not showing up at convenient times and ethan hunt not breaking bones when he should, perfect start to the summer.

Baba, did you go to see this movie with a discerning eye, because what you just said could basically apply to any mindless action movie with no plot..

no

it has a plot. its not mindless. but it is a popcorn affair and a very good one. it is not as intelligent as one of would expect it to be.

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B+

A-

This is a 2-hour Alias episode. The good thing is, is that Alias is high quality stuff!

I have only a few hours until showtime.

I can't help but think Fincher would have done a better job.

I hope I'm wrong.

He was in the running for awhile, wasn't he? That would have been... interesting.

I'm seeing it tonight, too.

Fincher would have done a differnt movie. He is my 2nd favorite director of all-time, so obviously I would ave prefered him at the helm. But Abrams still did a very good job. What remains is just me wondering what exactly Fincher would have done...

If I remember correctly, he was to film Darabont's script that revolved around the illegal trade of human organs in Africa
(happy go lucky summer stuff). There was also the storyline about the destruction of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Then there's Joe The Narc Carnahan whose MI:3 was to star Scarlett Johansson, Kenneth Branagh, and Carrie-Anne Moss.

Carnahan's was supposed to have pretty much a similar storyline, though with Johansson playing Keri Russell's role, Branagh playing Hoffman's role etc.

If the spoiler I read is correct, I think Johansson would have played Monaghan's role.

Hmmm, I read about Carnahan's project and all I read everywhere was that Johansson was up for a new IMF agent, trained by Hunt. Which is Russell's role. She'd also be a bit too young for Monaghan's role, methinks. Heck, she's 20+ years younger than Cruise...

Cruise likes 'em young.

I'm treading into spoiler terrority but yeah, not Carrie-Anne. Nope.

I'm seeing this in T-Minus: 3 Hours, 46 Minutes

I cant wait to see it on a DLP tomorrow , only one theater out of like the 20 in the area has DLP.

Unfortunately, the third Mission Impossible movie sucks as bad as the first one.

It's all over the place. But, the good news is that it kicks off with two great (sub-)missions. If you want a 100% positive experience with this movie - at all costs, leave the theatre at the one hour mark of this production, just after the agent rescue mission and the Vatican mission. After that, it's straight down the toilet for this puppy. The key mistake, again, as with the first movie in the series, is stay away from IMF headquarters - the less said about that organization, the better - Okay? Seriously, it just brings the whole brilliant formula from the TV series down. One really great mission makes a movie. Receive the mission, assemble the team, execute the mission, extract the team. Mission accomplished. (PERIOD.) Forget all the spy vs. spy thing - that's Bourne material or Grisham stuff.

But, like I said, the two initial missions are fun, things do blow up real good, there is closure - but then the whole freakin' enterprise derails and crashes in 10 different directions, until it comes to a screeching (and pointless) halt.

Tom's fine as an actor, as always, but I certainly expected more from him as a producer.

2 out of 5.

A+ A+ A+ A+ A FUCKING PLUS!!!!!!

The best M:I movie EVER!

It wasn't what I expected.

Care to elaborate or are you still gathering your thoughts on it??

I was a bit disappointed, although I liked it, or at least parts of it.

The action:
Mission 1: Decent, but not up to par given the budget.
Mission 2: Better; along the lines of what I was expecting. Impressed me at a couple points.
Mission 3: Fucking awesome. Sure, it's over the top, but it was a hell of a fun ride and had great visuals. It certainly caught me off guard when he suddenly jumped out of the window. That part with the truck is just a brilliant action shot IMO.
Finale: Very disappointing. It entirely lost momentum.

The plot: Major disappointment. It wasn't intricate and lacked any of the impact of De Palma's MI IMO. The twist was one of the most predictable I can remember. I found it annoying watching the movie trying to play little games to keep you guessing when it was quite obvious to me. At least Dan Brown always keeps you entertained while doing that. Also, the characters' motives were simplistic, which personally left me with nothing to look forward to but the action.

Some other problems I had:

[spoil]1) It seems that every Alias episode has the guy behind the computer saying he needs 30 seconds. As the seconds count down, the agent in the field has to deal with someone at that moment so as not to lose their cover. Of course it all works out at the last second. In fact, the original MI had this sort of scene now that I think of it. But at least it was fun there and it played a role in the plot. Here it was pointless. Could Abrams at least have put a new spin on one of his most overused gimmicks?
2) The "anti-god" speech seemed to be there only to build a fake sense of danger.
3) Just as he finds out who (supposedly) is the traitor on the inside, within 2 seconds the result of that betrayal comes into play as rockets start hitting the cars around them (I will admit however that those explosions were good ).
4) After 48 hours, he makes it in 5 seconds. You think the movie is winking at us? heh[/spoil]

Philip Seymour Hoffman was good, but seemed like he was just collecting his paycheck IMO. Ving Rhames was the same as usual. I thought Laurence Fishburne was great though. I really wish there were more of Maggie Q. She looks better then nearly every American actress I can think of. Plus, I love the sound of her voice. I have to Netflix her movies.

So, some good action, and Maggie Q; that might just be enough to get me to buy it on DVD.

7.1/10 - B+

I had to sleep on it.

All the talk pointed to MI:3 being the biggest reboot ever for a major franchise. People were praising JJ to high heaven, the Star Trek deal was announced, blah blah blah.

I ultimately found the film sorely lacking in humour, excitement, and overall originality.

I'll try to keep it spoiler-free but two main story pieces of both the first film and second film are used heavily in the script. HEAVILY.

I can't believe they used another Mole storyline. Granted, he was a mole modelled after the Bush adminstration (partnering up with the bad guy to get the even badder guy and bring democracy to the Middle East) but came across lazy and not very inventive.

And despite Ethan Hunt's question at the end of the film about what the Rabbit's Foot was, it's clear with the bio hazard markings that it's a bio weapon of sorts. So it's not a microchip or file or any sort of creative MacGuffin. It's nearly the exact same prize from MI:2.

I also didn't care for Owen's demise. Very cheap and anticlimatic.

The team aspect and the Vatican sequence were top notch. Everything else, including the domestic angle, didn't fit. Does Ethan exist in a vaccum where he wouldn't understand you can't mix your personal life with work, especially, you know, if you work for IMF? And let's be honest. True Lives covered that, and did it exceptionally well,

I also didn't see the 185 Million on-screen. I wasn't blown away by any of the visuals.

So many parts of the film didn't work or didn't fit.

I'm really surprised.

Well I give 6.8/10 :biggrin:
It has some extremely well done action (bridge scene;just hoped it would have been longer)
The Story is ok. Just ok. Well....
All in all a fun non brainer.
So far I would even give it 7.8 /10
but...The last 10-15 minutes just have been cheap ,and sorry I say it so, fucking stupid.
It was all programmed to make a cheesy stupid Happy End. big MEHHHHHH from me. Again the end was cheap and stupid.



I just wished Hoffman (who was a nice villain just with not enough screentime) killed Hawks wife. Now that whould have been really interesting for a upcoming part 4)

6.8/10