Without doubt the worst of the three movies.

Rating: 3/10 (5 May 2006)

I'll be nice and start off with the good things I have to say about the movie. I would be lying if I said that I didn't enjoy myself in the theater. But that is probably saying more about my lousy taste in movies, than it says about the quality of MI3.
Okay, I said I would start with the positives As always the special effects, were incredible. And the Mission Impossible theme is still the most thrilling spy-movie music ever written. Yes even better than the traditional James Bond theme. Well, I think that anyway. That theme just gets my adrenaline pumping every time.
But after saying this, it just goes down the drain. I don't think I have ever seen Tom Cruise play this lousily. He should never try to act in an emotional scene, he just doesn't cut it. The guy is like an emotional block of liquid hydrogen frozen granite.Besides, said emotional scenes seemed so out of place in this move that i barely could keep myself from bursting into roaring laughter, every time.
SPOILER WARNING: The resurrection scene at the end, is still now, an hour later, giving me the urge to laugh like a hyena. It is a stupid try to reproduce what Ed Harris and Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio did so splendidly in The Abbyss.
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Now, back to MI3.It helps a little that Tom does the action part pretty well, but it doesn't take away the ridiculousness of the whole movie. The plot is so recycled and so minimal that it isn't even funny. It wouldn't even fill a full written page. And within the first minutes we get a clue the size of the Milkyway, about what will happen in the end. Why such a splendid actor as Laurence Fishburne agreed to be in on this move is beyond my comprehension. Some of the things done by Ethan hunt here, would have fit nicely into The Matrix, but in the "real world" it just isn't possible,to the point of being ludicrous.
Finally, that villain were so two dimensionally boringly acted by whomever did it that it was laughable.The actor didn't seem to make an effort at all.
So why the heck I enjoyed this movie, I do not know. I think I need to have my head checked.
That's all folks Paladin Steelbreaker.