Fun and Fast Paced

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 2006)

Fun and fast paced, MI3 is the most enjoyable film in the series. The movie is visually stimulating, well edited, beautifully photographed and has a constant succession of explosions, chases and gunfights. It's very impressive and like a Bond film on steroids. You will be entertained if you can block out the ridiculous and implausible aspects of the plot.
Tom(Ethan Hunt) has retired from active service and spends his time training new agents. During his engagement party he is recruited to rescue a former protégé held hostage in Berlin. The Dr. Evil character (Philip Seymour Hoffman)is working with terrorists and trying to destroy the world. We never find out how. There are plot twists and misunderstandings and Hunt is mistakenly thought to be one of the bad guys and has to prove his innocence.
Action movies like MI3 operate in their own parallel universe where Cruise's character can seem almost like a superhero. Hunt's agency, the preposterously named Impossible Mission Force (IMF) is impressively, high-tech and is able to find its quarry, quickly and efficiently. The baddies are evil, sadistic and cartoonish. The IMF seems to exist to stage heists and capture super criminals. The team is less geeky this time out. In some ways I was reminded of Team America: World Police. A very enjoyable movie.