Mission Impossible 3

matt · #1 05-16-2006, 12:05 PM

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

b.miller · #2 05-16-2006, 02:14 PM

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.

cured · #3 05-16-2006, 02:30 PM

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.

adam · #4 05-16-2006, 02:45 PM

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.

lukeyd · #5 05-16-2006, 02:51 PM

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

ffolkes · #6 05-17-2006, 04:44 AM

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!