Excellent as always.

Rating: 9/10 (24 March 2007)

Newcomer J/J/ Abrams succeeds magnificently with this third MI episode. A lot of the credit for that goes to Tom Cruise. I see a lot of people badmouthing Cruise these days and think it is just absurd. He is an excellent actor with a very unbeatable track record, and more than that is the kind of actors that directors love. And it comes across in this film once again. I did think that Laurence Fishburn was not given enough screen time in this film, but the production itself was taut and the action satisfies. Sunone derisively called it Tom Cruise Superman, but when you know that he performed ninety percent of his own stunts, where another actor would have wimped out and had stunt doubles, and some of those stunts had to be painful, such as his slamming into the car during the explosion on the bridge, I feel he has earned the respect for his work.
The British certainly think so. He has earned the Stanley Kubrick award for excellence in film for his many and varied films over the past thirty some odd years. And MI III again demonstrates why he should be so honored. I rate this film a nine out of ten.