I thought the same thing when you said The Grudge was the scariest film you'd ever seen in a movie theater

The more I think about it, the more the complete downfall of the film is because of the domestic homelife angle. I can bitch about the visuals but I was impressed with the Vatican scene and I liked the use of the IMF team.

Mission Impossible is not Alias.

I agree, JJ Abrams did good, but only for a TV directore, I feel it could have been better with a better rewrite, though he still did a great job compared to Woo (Who I love)

You know, I feel the same way as you, but thankfully, the domestic angle was very short. However, my general thinking is that M:I films are like Bond films. You just have a hero who goes on a mission and kicks the bad guy's butt. That's it. It simply does not need to go beyond that.

I guess we differ on its length.

For me, it went from the flash forward opening all the way through to the awful ending. In between, we were lucky enough to get the Vatican and Bridge sequences.

The good thing about Bond films (thus far) is that they follow a very specific structure.

Which the upcoming one is supposedly about to break considering what I read thus far.

The only scenes that bothered me were the "marriage", the engagement party and the very ending.

Then again, the Bridge sequence is the best pure action sequence in a couple of years.

I agree.

Glad that you liked it, BKB, but didn't you give the original a B, like, yesterday?

Read closer, it says initially and then says how brilliant it was. I was the same way, I went to the bathroom when Phelps first appeared and was like a blind kid trying to light a match. Ohh Sorry

So, BKB's final grade for the first M:I film is an A?

I'm a fan of Kayne but that's shit.

I realize that, but for the moment, the movie is still sort of sinking in to where this was the grade that came to mind.. I'll have to really weigh out the Pro's and Con's of both movie's to guage a better grade I suppose through time..

I hate Kanye and that song soldified it.

Main Site Reviews:

Zingaling: A (http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Zach/MissionImpossible3.php)
Thompsoncory: A- (http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Cory/MI3.php)
RogueONE: B (http://www.worldofkj.com/reviews/Schade/mi3.php)

Heh.

M:I:3 gave me what just what I was expecting, lots and lots of explosions. And thats a good thing. I miss the days of the non-stop action blow em up movies of Bruckheimer (The Rock, Con Air) and this movie felt just like it. The opening scene immediately grabbed my attention and made the "Tom Cruise" nut job personaltit fade and the Ethan Hunt character to set in. The plot felt tired and old with the US helping terrorists (24 season 5 anyone?) but the action was the best in years. I was a little let down with the ending with no big climatic moment like the first two movies had with Hoffman's character getting killed way to easy. All in all it was what I wanted.

B+

the most horrible thing about MI3 is when the film ended, not even its ending. that kanye song came on and i wanted to piss all over the people to my right.

That was all kinds of awful, everyone was rushing out the door when they heard that song.

Here's my review:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/jour ... iew=public

Mmmm thats pretty scary. i left the cinema right at the end and don't remember the song. It's like background noise to me. Original MI score is the only right one.

Pretty good and a big step up from MI2 but I was a tad disappointed in the end. I like JJ Abrams and am addicted to Lost but I wonder if this would've been better off in the capable hands of a veteran action-thriller director. But as it stands, I still enjoyed it and hopefully it'll do well enough overseas and on DVD to warrant a sequel. This series still has more potential but I wonder if we've seen the last one. B-

It was fun, but for all the hype surrounding Abrams's impressive TV-to-film turn, I found it incredibly generic. Absolutely nothing surprising in terms of action, character, plot. I didn't even think Hoffman was as deliciously fun as he's been touted as.

As a huge fan of Alias, I can't fault Abrams for retaining some of his TV techniques in his transition to film, but something about the framing of the shots just seemed off. Works great on TV but seemed a little incompatible on the big screen.

I liked the Keri Russell scenes, though.

B-

Great summer film. Really, it had everything I would have come to expect, and maybe that's why I enjoyed it. All I wanted was some good ol' summer action. The film had some great scenes, action flowed well, it was all entertaining and fun. And Hoffman is a killer cool badguy. He just oozes with coolness/badguyness in his lines. Hehe.

B-

PEACE, Mike.

B- also. Least favorite Mission: Impossible movie so far. Maybe I've been spoiled by the fast paced action of TV's 24, but this film seemed to drag along slowly and was less fun in comparison. There were a couple of good sequences in this film though, just not enough.