Crazy Guy makes a Good Movie

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2006)

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Mastercard you want me to fill in the Blanks? Well here you go?
Tickets to the First Summer Blockbuster: $6.50 1 Cherry Icee: $4.00 Blowing up a Lamborghini: $250,000 Block Buster Budget: $185,000,000 Employing 4 Chinese people to shoot a 15 second shot on screen: $.04 cents *Finding out that the "voice" from the Mastercard Commercials has one eye that goes this way and one eye that goes that way: Priceless
Mission Impossible 3 is the first blockbuster movie of the year and it does not disappoint. When I entered this movie I was under the impression that I would hate it but to my surprise I ended up really enjoying this movie. The star studded cast includes Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Keri Russell, Laurence Fishburne, and Jonathan Rhy Meyers (Match Point). But even with that many stars in one movie no one personality stands out or takes over the movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman does an excellent job of playing the bad guy. Tom Cruise keeps it together long enough for you to remember that he is still a great actor. Ving Rhames, well he is Ving Rhames kind of like Samuel Jackson, One Bad MF, enough said. Laurence Fishburne also does an excellent job but it is hard to get his roles for the Matrix out of my head. Keri Russell is in the movie for about a total of 10 minutes which brings up the question of , "why she is even mentioned in the opening credits?" And finally Jonathan Rhy Meyers is an up and coming star that does an excellent job and because of his role in Match Point he is 2 for 2 on my list, keep up the good work.
From beginning to end this is a great movie which unlike the past two MI movies does not have a scene that is so unrealistic (I am looking at you John Woo, remember when you made Tom Cruise and Dougray Scott have a battle while on motorcycles) that you'd need a frontal lobotomy to believe what you just saw on screen. This may be a case of the fact that MI:3 was produced, written and directed by JJ Abrams and for all of you that are Lost fans we know that he is just a genius. I really enjoyed this movie and if you can get by the fact that Tom Cruise is a nut I would highly recommend going out to see this movie. It is pretty much what you expect from the Mission Impossible series and if you are a fan of these types of movies you are not going to be disappointed.
Loyal Readers I have a challenge for you. While watching Mission Impossible 3 I challenge you to try not to think about Tom Cruise and his jumping up and down on a couch, or him dating a girl that is 16 years , or him eating a placenta. Now that is Mission Impossible.
Stay Tuned for Mission Impossible 4 where Tom Cruise attempts to date and impregnate a sperm. But then again, what do I know?
* You may not have noticed this but at the beginning of the movie his eyes are doing some crazy stuff. He kind of looks like that crazy guy in town that when he is talking you don't know if he is looking at you or the person standing right next to you.