Mission Impossible 3
 

tom cruise discussions aside has anyone else here seen the film yet?

i have to say that for a big budget hollywood franchise film it was actually rather enjoyable - sure there's some holes and cringey bits but on the whole it's a pretty decent action thriller movie that's a lot darker than the first two and has some great stunts.

phillip seymour hoffman is great, obviously, as the bad guy but lawrence fishburne also puts in a great show as cruise's boss

definitely a popcorn movie but a very enjoyable one at that :)

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yeah i more or less agree. it's by far the best of the series but that's not saying much if you ask me... i still don't understand how something that explodes behind Cruise makes him get thrown to the side to hit the car but... it's impressive on a purely visual level nonetheless. pretty decent is right.

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It was worth seeing, definitely. A little heavy handed at times in regards to its political message and the operations team were a bunch of sobs but it was worth the price of admission. I'd recommend it but would also tell people not to expect the next great movie a la something in the "Bourne Identity" vein. I happen to love that series.

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I dunno, I thought the first one was pretty good. It was cheesy, but the action seemed fairly fresh to me. Also, killing Emilio Estevez was great.

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i saw this on the weekend too. definately made a change from the john woo slow-mo fest the last one was

i want a car with a trap door damnit

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i liked MI3, definitely better than your average summer flick.

not surprisingly it was eons better than MI2, which was just godawful trash. i still probably like the first mission: impossible the most, if only for de palma's visual style and the european locations.

btw interestingly as i knew that jj abrams had done 'lost', i found myself watching mi3 and thinking how it curiously felt like the pilot episodes of lost... only with a bigger budget and guns. there was just something about it that was similar in spirit. later on i checked out what episodes abrams had actually directed on lost, and much to surprise there were only two: the pilot episodes.

as a blind al pacino would say: WHOO-AH!

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Yeah, I agree that it was pretty decent. But, I still think the first one was the best.

I thought the second one was the worst. I don't really like John Woo films, though I think it was cool that Tom Cruise had long hair in it.

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I thought it was a nice action movie, nothing more, nothing less. Enjoyed it all the way through, although I was hoping for a little more 'Lost' in it, since JJ Abrams directed it.

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Were you expecting Citizen Kane? The Godfather? It's Tom Cruise. It's Mission Impossible. Come on now.

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But it was something more. It has PSM.

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saw this last night and I don't regret it. Very enjoyable all the way trough. Great action and they was a nice focus on the team working together on the various missions.

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i liked it well enough too. i thought the opening sequence was pretty cool, but then i didn't like that it gave away a lot of what was going to happen over the next hour-plus. i mean, how can there be any tension as to whether tom cruise can stop seymour hoffman from kidnapping his wife when you already know that hoffman is going to be successful?

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The thing I liked about the opening was that knowing something like this was coming created a really thick feeling of tension through the whole movie for me. In fact, I felt more tense in this movie than I think I have in any other action movie I've ever seen. Not until the credits rolled did I feel like, "okay, now I can relax..." Definitely the best of the three in my opinion, and a very entertaining movie overall.

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that's a really good bet on why i was so tense too. i thought it was great, and the only of the three that i'd like to watch again

(other than the bike chase scene, to check out the race bike to dirk bick transition again, and the scene with the dove, in mi2)

i also think it was cool how they did the face switching/mask thing in mi3, cause after mi2, i was like WTF! to how many different mask switches there were with no explanation. this time there was and it made sense