Better than M:I-2

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2006)

I don't know if this film can mark the revival of the series but this is definitely a positive turn from much-hyped trash by John Woo. While Woo focused unnecessarily on visually stylized boring action sequences without any pace in the story (well, if that's a story at all), M:I-3 rightfully portrays a simpler yet entertaining basic storyline, carefully added subplots, optimum and balanced visual effects for the action scenes all of which are quite helped by decent casting choices like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Maggie Q and to some extent Michelle Monaghan. Keri Russell is surprisingly very under-used.
Well, agent Ethan Hunt has fallen in love with a doctor and got married. Now he got an assignment to rescue a fellow agent (who's also his protégé) from a mission. Then he got much intertwined in the process which ended up with the bad guys kidnapping his wife as a hostage. And that's the maximum I can reveal under a "no spoiler" banner. There's two major plot twists after that which made the story decent enough.
I reached to a point in watching action films where nothing except very intelligent ones excite me enough to be marked as a great film. So M:I-3 is not a great film. But it's good enough for the original M:I fans. My expectations were, frankly, quite minimal. But I ended up entertained enough. Some of the scenes truly deserve praise.