Enjoyable movie but wheres the intrigue? and wheres the big ending?

Rating: 6/10 (12 June 2006)

Being the 3rd movie in the series I went into the movie with the required lowered expectations.
This movie met my expectations in some departments while disappointed me in the others.
The movie started out promisingly enough with a sequence involving the rescue of a kidnapped operative. We can see the reason why the retired cruise decides you come out of retirement.
What really doesn't go down with me is that how nowadays all movies EVEN ACTION MOVIES ARE BEING DRIVEN BY LOVE. Are they no other emotions driving mankind, what about the simple action movies what about other sometimes stronger emotions such as greed, survival, patriotism, duty, revenge. Why are we subjected to movie after movie where the whole world revolves around love. It was cool in the first few films but its increasingly irritating that movie makers in order to appeal to a wider audience are force feeding romantic elements down your throat.
To add to that we are forced to cope with Sensitive Action Heros, Strong Women Who rise to the occasion, the over predictable double cross, the faithful team, the oh so simple plot that is as clear as water. Whatever happened to complicated multiple double cross and multiple motivations driven plot where I actually know that people went to see it twice just because they didn't get it the first time. This movie is sanitised for my liking.
The acting especially from Tom Cruise was top class he played the role of a returned special agent all to easily and for the first time and thankfully so looked his age. The rest of the cast which included some great fresh new faces especially Maggie Q were also great making this all to plain movie slightly better.
Hats off to Philip Seymour Hoffman who sent chills down my spine as a menacing arms dealer without the theatrics. He somehow achieved this effect merely by saying things as unemotionally as possible and looking at Tom Cruise with no expression in his face. Just the coldness in his eyes and words were enough to make him a memorable screen villain.
The plot was to simple to be mentioned and the direction was top class but just good as any other A-list Hollywood movie. The locations were again run of the mill and nothing worth mentioning.
Special scenes were the opening sequence with the daring rescue which ends surprisingly. Clearly the best scene was the attack on the bridge on Tom Cruise. The scene had some great action and mind boggling special effects.
The movie lacked the big ending that we have come to associate with the series. The thankfully eliminated the predictable IMPOSSIBLE HEIST but I would have still liked to see a bigger better more exciting ending.
In all a good package that will unfortunately or fortunately appeal to all audiences. Liberally scattered with some great scenes that keep you interested throughout.
Watchable with lowered expectations.
+s a memorable screen villain, great acting and cast, a couple of great scenes, fast pace, complete package, Doesn't Disappoint DESPITE THE HYPE,watched it half price in the morning show hehe
-s tooooooo simple, toooooo predictable, no big ending, complete package, NOTHING NEW TO OFFER.
total 6/10 (however if seen in absolute terms its a 4 but considering lowered expectations reaches a 6)