Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]
by J.J. Abrams

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Actor: Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames
Director: J.J. Abrams
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

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Movie Review: Cruise knows Action
Summary: 4 Stars

Why is it that Tom Cruise is at his best when he is running from something? Minority Report, The Firm, War of the Worlds, etc. - he does a significant amount of escaping and running away from people in all these films. I guess there is just something about seeing him running for his life at full speed that make people want to come back for more. Whatever the reason, I though Mission Impossible III was a good, entertaining show.

The key to this type of movie is expectations. You musn't expect an intricate plot, or clever dialogue. What you should go in expecting is action, and lots of gadgets and devices that help them accomplish their "impossible" mission. Since I don't watch many action movies, whenever I do, it is a fun, lively experience. I don't recommend more than one action movie every six months. Any more and you will be jaded to the genre very quickly.

I do remember that Mission Impossible I, and maybe II as well, had lots of crazy plot twists, so much so that it was hard to figure out who were the good guys and who were the bad guys. The third installment has some of that, but it does not take nearly so many turns, and it is very easy to follow. However, if you are looking for a "mystery", you will probably be disappointed.

One thing that did bother me was the lack of rationality on Tom Cruise's character's part. He seems to lose any perspective toward the end of the movie. While believability does have to be suspended during this type of movie, he is generally a cool, scientific, rational character, but when his girlfriend/wife is kidnapped, he loses it. Oh well, maybe that's the Power of Love.

One side note. When they refer to "IMF" in this film, they are referring to the "Impossible Mission Force" and not the "International Monetary Fund". This became clear to me at the end, but it made me pause in the middle.

Overall, I would recommend this movie if you haven't watched an action movie in a long time and don't really feel like anything more serious. It is a fun way to waste two hours as long as you don't set your expectations too high.

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Paramount Mission: Impossible 3 (Blu-ray)
Tom Cruise returns as Special Agent Ethan Hunt, who faces the mission of his life in Mission: Impossible III." Director J. J. Abrams ("Lost", "Alias") brings his unique blend of action and drama to the billion-dollar franchise.

At the time of its release, Mission: Impossible III's box office was plagued by the publicity backlash against couch-jumping star Tom Cruise. It's too bad, because this third installment of the spy thriller franchise deserved a better reception than it got. First-time feature director J.J. Abrams (bigwig TV director/producer of Lost, Alias, & Felicity) proves more than able-bodied in creating a Mission: Impossible that's leaner and less over-stylized than John Woo's sequel and less confusing than Brian De Palma's original. Plot is still a throwaway here (Cruise's Ethan Hunt rescues his kidnapped former trainee and works to steal a device that... well, we don't really know what it does, but it's something about mass destruction that costs $850 million), but the action sequences, particularly one where Ethan faces down a helicopter on a bridge and gets flung hard against the side of a car, are particularly impressive since Cruise, at 44, is still doing most of his own stunts and shows no hint of the weathered look that's struck his action-star peers. (Though no Mission: Impossible stunt will ever be quite as simultaneously nail-biting and funny as the first film's wire-dangling break-in of CIA headquarters.)

Mission: Impossible III boasts a pedigreed cast, particularly Oscar? winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) as baddie arms dealer Owen Davian. Hoffman plays Owen all teeth-clenched and cool, especially when threatening to kill Ethan in front of his lovely new wife (Michelle Monaghan) who has no idea of his spy life. But in his first action-film lead role, Hoffman's almost too calm and collected to really make a memorable villain, especially when the rest of the cast--Ving Rhames (the only other cast member to return for all three films), Asian film star Maggie Q, and an underused Jonathan Rhys-Meyers--are a highlight as Ethan's IMF team. Mission: Impossible is still fun popcorn spy fare, and if Cruise chooses to end the franchise here, at least he goes out on a high note. --Ellen A. Kim

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