What a great movie.

Rating: 10/10 (4 May 2006)

I am neither a fan of Cruise nor a fan of the MI series.I found the first MI movie to be O.K and the second awful but this new one blows both away.
The movie begins with a bang(literally) and never lets go.The structure of this film has nothing to do with part 2.Here we have a team working together again not the super hero Cruise of part 2(now that i think again,part 2 shouldn't even be called "mission impossible" it had nothing to do with the franchise other than the main character's name).There are many surprises in the plot,the action sequences are great(and i mean really great) and Cruise gets really dirty on this one while his teammates are really likable and Lorence Fishbern has a small but vital to the plot part.
So far so good,but there's one thing that really blew me away in this film:the coolest,meanest villain i have ever watched in a movie:Yep,Philip Seymour Hoffman is that good!!I have always admired this actor but here in a popcorn/summer flick he really makes a difference and thank God his character is really well written.We don't have a crazy villain that overacts(ala Jack Nicholson -type of villain),we have a real cruel person that can also be very confident and very brave at the same time.The scene at the plane where Nathan is torturing Davian(Hoffman's character) would ,at a regular film,occur vice versa.It would be the bad guy that would this thing(i won't mention what it is) and the good guy that would show braveness,resistance.
I won't say much more as to not ruin the plot but all i can say is this is the best action film i have seen in years and i hope that Hoffman will start playing in more big summer movies.