Hope This Is The Last One

Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2006)

The third and hopefully final "Mission Impossible" is so unoriginal and so uneven that it's more like "Mission To Not Be Nauseous: Impossible." Even the trademark James Bondian moments are borderline dull. JJ proves himself to be a spastic, hack director who can't leave the camera alone. I was nearly nauseated by the early constant camera cuts. Did anyone else notice the annoying cuts and useless zooms during the house party scene? No character was on screen for more then three seconds before JJ cut to something else. (Even shots of the dog). Oh, and the dialogue is stiffly Shatnerian.
Viewed only in the context of the big, stupid FX film that it is, the movie has its moments. The action isn't better than it was in MI2 but it's still mindless all the same. The meandering fortune cookie dialogue does get in the way quite often.