Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Country: US/GER/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 126m
Director: J. J. Abrams
Cast: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg, Eddie Marsan, Keri Russell
Synopsis:
Ethan Hunt comes out of semi-retirement as an instructor to help spring a former colleague, while pursuing a romance with a hospital doctor that could lead to long-term commitment. However, when the operation goes wrong, he is drawn into the fight against the wicked black marketeer responsible, without sharing the truth with his fiancée or, indeed, securing the say-so of his IMF superiors.
Review:
The M.I. franchise goes ever more 007-like with this instalment, which packs in an array of action sequences, from hostage rescue to kidnapping to daring theft, and more, without pausing to explain the intelligence or logistics behind the operations. It also takes a leaf from the book of that other great US Bond imitator, True Lies, with its central setup of the wife's implication in her husband's double life, not to mention a very similar hostage grab sequence on the Florida keys. These reservations aside, though, it is thrill-a-minute stuff, with some sweaty, up-close acting from the principals and a nice sense of unity from the repeated situations and central romantic interest. Factor in some superbly, and edited, mounted location and stunt work in Germany, Rome and Shanghai, and you have all you could possibly wish for from such an undertaking.
Country: US/GER/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 126m
Director: J. J. Abrams
Cast: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg, Eddie Marsan, Keri Russell
Synopsis:
Ethan Hunt comes out of semi-retirement as an instructor to help spring a former colleague, while pursuing a romance with a hospital doctor that could lead to long-term commitment. However, when the operation goes wrong, he is drawn into the fight against the wicked black marketeer responsible, without sharing the truth with his fiancée or, indeed, securing the say-so of his IMF superiors.
Review:
The M.I. franchise goes ever more 007-like with this instalment, which packs in an array of action sequences, from hostage rescue to kidnapping to daring theft, and more, without pausing to explain the intelligence or logistics behind the operations. It also takes a leaf from the book of that other great US Bond imitator, True Lies, with its central setup of the wife's implication in her husband's double life, not to mention a very similar hostage grab sequence on the Florida keys. These reservations aside, though, it is thrill-a-minute stuff, with some sweaty, up-close acting from the principals and a nice sense of unity from the repeated situations and central romantic interest. Factor in some superbly, and edited, mounted location and stunt work in Germany, Rome and Shanghai, and you have all you could possibly wish for from such an undertaking.
Country: US/GER/CHI
Technical: col/2.35:1 126m
Director: J. J. Abrams
Cast: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg, Eddie Marsan, Keri Russell
Synopsis:
Ethan Hunt comes out of semi-retirement as an instructor to help spring a former colleague, while pursuing a romance with a hospital doctor that could lead to long-term commitment. However, when the operation goes wrong, he is drawn into the fight against the wicked black marketeer responsible, without sharing the truth with his fiancée or, indeed, securing the say-so of his IMF superiors.
Review:
The M.I. franchise goes ever more 007-like with this instalment, which packs in an array of action sequences, from hostage rescue to kidnapping to daring theft, and more, without pausing to explain the intelligence or logistics behind the operations. It also takes a leaf from the book of that other great US Bond imitator, True Lies, with its central setup of the wife's implication in her husband's double life, not to mention a very similar hostage grab sequence on the Florida keys. These reservations aside, though, it is thrill-a-minute stuff, with some sweaty, up-close acting from the principals and a nice sense of unity from the repeated situations and central romantic interest. Factor in some superbly, and edited, mounted location and stunt work in Germany, Rome and Shanghai, and you have all you could possibly wish for from such an undertaking.