The best out of the series

Rating: 8/10 (7 May 2006)

Mission: Impossible III/2006/***1/2
Main Stars: Tom Cruise Philip Seymour Hoffman Michelle Monaghan Laurence Fishburne
J.J. Abrams (Lost and Alias creator) takes the director's chair for M:I:III. Being a fan of Abrams to begin with (because of the great Lost series), I was even more of a fan after leaving the theater. Out of the three M:I films, this one is by far the best. Sure, this is just like any action film: shootings, explosions, edge-of-your-seat scenes... but this one has a little more wit to it. The second, which I own, was good and smart because of the imaginative masks and scenes to try to find out this plan. Yet this one obviously was more realistic than both the first and second and had more intense scenes and didn't have the stupid infra red clocks that signal that you have a certain amount of time to get outta there. This time they were white. You know what's old though? And what the movie still kept? It was when one person died when they could have lived. There was about three seconds left according to the white numbers and the person dies. I know it's not as bad as getting out just in time or dying at exactly one second left but they could have made it look a bit more realistic saying the person died at 33 seconds or something like that. But the movie overpowers the number complaint and continues to impress the audience with some pretty creative ways to trick security: taking a picture from the camera that's filming the grounds at an enormous castle. It's showing no one there so when Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is about to go in front of the camera he pastes the picture, showing no one on the grounds, on the camera, and turns the cameras back on so that security doesn't get suspicious, and walks in the castle dressed up like a priest. That's the first part of the mission which is taken place in Rome, Italy. I could have sworn I saw everyone inside the castle drinking Merlot. The evil plan/object is called the Rabbit's Foot which seems to be confusing at first because you don't know what it is. Ethan personally asks his boss, "What is the Rabbit's Foot?" It's secret. The Rabbit's Foot has some sort of radioactive sign on it. Will it ever be revealed? You'll find out. The movie doesn't only consist of the typical shootings and killings of an action film but, as I said before wit, AND some humor. But usually action films have humor anyway. The movie was loud and so was the soundtrack by great Italian composer Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles score). But the original main theme is by Lalo Schifrin. So the explosions made noise and gunshots were obnoxiously loud and the movie overall was exhausting but still very entertaining. The second destination was in Shanghai, China to basically receive the Rabbit's Foot and get hurt by swinging from buildings and get outta there in a CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME yet it all changes at the end. The thing I disagree with most in this series are the names of the films. They are called impossible missions and even the agency Ethan works for is called the IMF (Impossible Mission Force) yet are they really impossible or are they just interpreted that way by the people? Who knows? First movie of this series was directed by the master of gore- Brian DE Palma. Second was directed by the master of slow motion- John Woo. And this one isn't a master yet since he hasn't become very popular. But I have confidence in Abrams; he's done well in his TV series' so he probably will be a master someday but nobody can be the master of suspense except for Alfred Hitchcock. Movie directed by J.J. Abrams.