Utterly cliché but watchable

Rating: 6/10 (8 May 2006)

In my opinion you can't expect unexpected originality from movies like MI:3.Because the events that might occur in these kind of movies are more-or-less obvious.There is a hero and a world waited to be saved. And mostly it is not probable that hero will fail.I watched MI:3 with this feelings but I didn't expect this kind of ordinariness from this movie.Plot is a parade of clichés.An agent who finds love and wants to settle down ,a wife who doesn't know anything about her husbands profession , a mole who is leaking information out of top secret organization , a bad guy who starts a personal vendetta against the hero.There is even goofy brother-in-law and a sarcastic scientist.I expect much more from J.J Abrams because of the originality and quality of his TV-series Lost.But despite of its ordinariness I didn't get bored while I was watching it thanks to good acting,top of the line visual effects,thunderingly sound effects and historical and exotic places like Vatican and China.
From my point of view the cast MI:3 can compete with the first MI and of course better than the second MI.Tom Cruise successfully did what he had been doing since the beginning of the MI series.He runs , jumps, evades , shoots , kills and cries. Philip Seymour Hoffman draws a good bad man portrait with his calm attitudes and charismatic voice. Maggie Q -despite her lack of experience- makes the scenes more colorful with her elegance.Yet another good performance from Jonathan Rhys Meyers who can be seen in the Woody Allen movie Match Point.Laurence Fishburne,Billy Crudup and Ving Rhames are all performed a steady performance that improves movies watch-ability.But I didn't like the performances of Keri Russell and Michelle Monaghan. In my opinion Keri Russell doesn't fit the role and Michelle Monaghan simply acts bad.
In conclusion , From my point of view MI:3 is not a good movie as it should be.Because the cast and the creative brain behind this project is well above the average Hollywood production has.But watching MI:3 is like watching the home-video of your childhood.You know what is going to be next but this can't hold you back from watching it.