The Impossible Has Happened - the Best of the Lot

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2006)

There was no way I was going to miss seeing this movie, but that being said, there was no way that I thought it was going to be as good a movie as it was.
Yes, Tom's a hero of impossibly high proportions; yes, Hoffman is an impossibly evil villain; yes, the effects and situations are from an impossibly improbable parallel universe - people know things they could never know, random events happen precisely on cue, and the IMF accomplishes things that are, in a word, IMPOSSIBLE But this movie is much better than I expected it to be.
Instead of going out with a whimper, this movie was the best MI so far, and it definitely paves the way for the fourth installment.
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One particularly graphic bit of violence was made all the more graphic and almost physically palpable by occurring off-screen. I think everyone wanted to see Philip Seymour Hoffman really get what was coming to him. But in the end, I don't think anyone, not even those with a penchant for violence, were disappointed. No one is waiting for "the other shoe to drop." One shoe was plenty...