Mission Impossible 3
May 13, 2006 | Movies
Went to the cinema the other day to see Mission Impossible 3.
Unfortunately I can’t decide whether I liked it or not. There was lots of action, some of it quite cool, and it was a lot more emotional than previous films (or at least it tried to be). There appeared to be an attempt to make the movie more like the tv series 24 with smaller set pieces where anything can, and will, happen.
The movie starts with Toms Cruises Ethan Hunts girlfriend being killed - then steps back a few weeks to their engagement party. Ethan is now a retired operative who is training new recruits when he gets called in for “one last job”. Then follows the standard “mission goes wrong thing” that pulls him in even further.
Each Mission Impossible movie has been directed by someone different, and has tried something different with the story. Personally I don’t think this one felt like the other two films. They had a style that held them together, along with missions that could conceivably be impossible. In this film there wasn’t a huge sense of danger in anything, especially since you know Ethan survives at least a little bit longer, simply because you have seen him in a few weeks time.
Tom Cruise looks the part but there are a number of places where his age seems to be catching up with him. That said he does know how to run - but it’s not something I had noticed before. The action is quite nice - fast paced and lots of it. I wasn’t keen on the shaky cam that was made popular in the Bourne Identity and seems to be used more and more in films that want to have a “real life” approach.
Overall?
It was worth seeing especially if, like me, you get to see it for free. I would probably suggest to people that they wait for the dvd to come out and just watch it one weekend.
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May 14, 2006
The running portion I thought was really funny, think the running man with a repeating background. I was really stoked to see a villian killing the hostages for no reason, even though they proved to be someone different. You just don’t see enough really evil bad guys anymore.
May 14, 2006
I didn’t mention the bad guy. Doh!
I quite liked him actually. He seemed a bit too much like a geek (maybe just his looks?) but he could also be surprisingly intimidating. He was definitely evil and the start of the film was very good because of it.
May 14, 2006
I have not had a chance to see it yet as I understand there is alot of snake activity and I want to be able to skip that and in order to do that I have to be in control of the playback (IE rent it when it comes out) It looks awesome though. I really liked Mission Impossible II so I think III should be interesting, movies rarely work when there are multiple sequels made, at least thats how I understand it. Just look at Home Alone III .. Just my 2 cents. BTW.. Great blog!
May 14, 2006
Sebastian - you will be pleased to hear this is in a different league to Home Alone 3
MI3 isn’t a bad film, but I didn’t think it felt like a Mission Impossible film either.
I’m not sure what you mean by snake activity though?
May 14, 2006
As I understood it MI III has a snake as a major antagonist.. someone mentioned it to me in my internet travels, if it is not true then I am happy to see the movie in the theatre…
May 18, 2006
Tom Cruise in insanally in shape. Action was sometimes great, sometimes just ok.
But this film is so much about self promotion. Why is the movie so about one character (Ethan), if MI is supposed to be a team ? Is is me or Cruise has the camera sticked on his b_tt movie long?
May 26, 2006
Watching Tom run is practically inspiring. He put on a great performance — both acting and athletic — in Minority Report, one of my favorite movies.