Best of the 3. Quit while you're ahead Tom?

Rating: 9/10 (3 February 2007)

The better recent action films up the "realism" and grittiness - ala the Bourne films. This is one of those films. I'm a fan of all 3 Missions and this is the best yet for me - others will disagree. The action film genre was dying on its arse until the Bourne films (in my humble opinion) and now this latest outing for Ethan Hunt.
So this mission is more of the same and as the next in a series has had the volume turned up a notch. But not in a Speed-2-this-film-is-a-2-hour-headache-way but in a good way. I was so absorbed into this film that I didn't even see the obvious plot twist coming (maybe I'm getting old!)
Highlight for me was Mr Hoffman. Who would have thought that lovable stumble-bum Phillip Seymour could be such a convincing nasty-piece-of-work. More please. Maybe he could become the new Alan Rickman?(!)
Never been a fan of "Lost" but this film makes we want to give it another try. Am waiting for Mr Abrahms' next film with anticipation and Tom can keep bad-mouthing Brooke Shields and make a fool of himself on Oprah as much as he wants aslong as he keeps producing output of this quality.