one of the good action films of the year

Rating: 7/10 (9 December 2006)

In a year that was not blessed with many good action films (I have yet to see the new James Bond though) MI3 succeeds to catch the eye and offers two good hours of reasonable popular entertainment. The director J.J.Abrams is at his first big studios movie, his record just includes a few episodes in the TV series 'Alias' but the directing hand is sure and there are no major flaws. The story is rather standard in the genre, it does involve some hi-tech gadgets, it takes us in more than one continent, and includes a car chase on a oversea bridge as requires, there is also some romantic and emotional component, which fits well in the story and makes us care about the characters. Tom Cruise seems to enjoy the role, and is that the series are not at their end.