Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]
Starring: Anne Betancourt, Paolo Bonacelli, Jane Daly, Laurence Fishburne, Bruce FrenchStudio: Paramount
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release: June 3rd 2008
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DVD Review
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.
User Reviews
Much better than expected - Rating: 3/5
I thought it would be a stinker. I have never seen any of J.J. Abrams's work (I don't watch TV), so I had no idea that this one would be good. I was very hopeful about de Palma's original, and I was a bit let down by it. Then came John Woo's version, and it was basically a stinker. So I was not expecting anything great from M:I:III, and in fact, I didn't even want to put it in.
Yeah, Tom Cruise really wanted to do it, so he acted as producer and made the whole thing come together as a way to revive his troubled career. Can't be good, right?
Well, it is pretty good. All of the acting is decent, although some of the lines are a bit corny. The ending is a bit contrived (and you can see it from a mile away), but the action is good, and the film does some interesting things, like not allowing us to see some of the action. We see other characters talk about what is happening, but we don't see one primary bit of action, and the movie is better for the hints and suppositions.
One thing that annoyed me is the way there's always a mole in the M:I franchise, but it's just par for the course, I guess.
If you're looking for a good action film, this one delivers.
Ethan in love - Rating: 5/5
Great movie, but if you watch it in this blu ray format... other formats can may you forget the movie at the middle of the action...
More heart in this and more realistic than the others.
The fun, the adventure, the creativity, never ease up... - Rating: 3/5
In this third film of the series, Ethan Hunt has retired from the field, and is training new agents.... His sweetheart Julia (Michelle Monaghan) thinks he works for the Department of Transportation...
When one of his pupils is kidnapped by a sadistic arms dealer Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Hunt decides to assemble his old team to retrieve her, putting in mortal danger his new love...
J.J. Abrams--in his first feature film--shot "Mission: Impossible III" with a sense of timing and suspense... We're dealing with full-flash blanks, glass breaking, explosions... And we see Hunt, in a quite interesting shot, running up a wall to enter the Vatican... Also, in the bridge sequence, he runs away from a rocket hit on one of the vehicles... It's cool because the way he's running, the look on his face, before, during and after that impact could only have been done only by an actor as good as him... In China, in an old fishing village, we see him jumping off tile rooftops, with incredible grace, precision, coordination and footwork... Then, with Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell) they jump out of a building on a cable landing on a truck...
The special effects, and visual effects are great... They all work together... The Shanghai street chase with Tom leaning out of the car at some insanely dangerous angle to shoot a gun under a truck; Also Tom, in a high-speed boat, on the Tiber River in Rome, Italy; the blowing of a nice spectacular sports car; and, of course, the helicopter chase sequence where, in pursuit, the bad-guy helicopter emerges out of a fireball...
Also, in a fantastic shot, in Shanghai, China, when the camera comes in and then goes around Tom as he's standing on top of a Shanghai roof... The camera comes over his shoulder and look down at the ground, so we'll see Tom on the top of the Shanghai building, hundreds feet in the air, and just to show and set up the jeopardy of what he's about to accomplish...
Well, I loved the director's work... He's so detail-oriented...The fun, the adventure, the creativity, never eased up...
And, please, don't miss Colleen Atwood, entering the Vatican, with a head-turner red dress...
3 stars out of 4 - Rating: 4/5
The Bottom Line:
Lacking the contrived machinations of De Palma's original and the pretentiousness of Lee's artsy sequel, Mission Impossible 3 flourishes under the relative straightforwardness of Abrams' direction; allowed to finally breathe, the series comes up with its best movie, buoyed by a great villain in Hoffman and a couple of stellar action scenes.
Mission Accomplished - Rating: 5/5
Somehow I missed this movie when it first came out. I had watched Mission Impossibles I and II and liked them. This edition is the best of the three and the best acted. If he gets the big bucks, he deserves them, and by the way, I don't care what his personal religion and marital status is. I really enjoyed the movie and have to put his presence on the screen up to superstar status with the big boys.
