As lame as the first two.

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2006)

I WAS going to start out saying something like, "What was Tom Cruise thinking?" But recent publicity has proved that he doesn't. Think, that is. If Mission: Impossible 3 enjoys any sort of financial success at the box office, then I blame the movie-going American public. Cruise and Paramount have turned an intellectually stimulating franchise into a mind-numbing mish-mash of action and violence. A sad commentary on the intellectual level of the average movie fan. Paramount teased those of us who care, by hinting that it would be releasing the television series on DVD, coinciding with the release of M:I3. Instead, Paramount released the first two Cruise installments as a boxed set. Is Paramount hoping to bury any and all memory of the best, the original , television version of Mission: Impossible? Hear me Paramount Studios! I would NOT EVER waste my money buying any Tom Cruise version of Mission: Impossible. I would however, spend BIG BUCKS on buying all seven seasons of the TV series if it were ever released on DVD.