Predictable and Mild

Rating: 6/10 (13 May 2006)

Bad things first. I am, for one, starting to feel very tired of seeing Tom Cruise running like a mad man down some street. It occurs in all his films, it seems. Okay, thats a little lame, but still. After about 10-15 minutes you have figured out the whole plot already and this with a disturbing dizziness from the constant shaking camera. The whole film, by the way, feel like a middle-thing of a made-for-TV-movie and blockbuster, but mostly, the plot feels like a elongated episode of a regular TV-show. Worst is the ending, it ends very mildly, and it plays right in to the spectators most obvious prediction.
Good things. The effects are nice (but again, after 10-15 minutes they have used the whole arsenal) and there is really no extraordinary effect that you have not already seen in some other film. Nothing groundbreaking there. Tom Cruise is (with exception of his crazy running around) good, as always, but gets blown away by the performance of the glorious Seymour-Hoffman (who should be in all films, if you ask me... I just love him). The MIF-team feels comfortable with each other, and makes for a more pleasant ride. Last, there are a few scenes that are pretty cool, but they are to short, like the bridge sequence (maybe the best action in the whole flick). All in all, a very mediocre film. I am sort of disappointed... I mean, this is summer 2006, and something new has to come, but not from MI:3.