Mission: Impossible III

Rating: 6/10 (14 November 2006)

The third installment of the "Mission: Impossible" series is the first one I have actually seen. What drew my attention to this film was the name on the director's chair: J.J. Abrams. He is the man behind TV series "Lost", which creates enormous suspense, unseen on TV for a long time. What Abrams manages here is to give the movie a dark and uncompromising touch. Philip Seymour Hoffman is great in the scenes he's on, but he has too less screen time. Michelle Monaghan (or her role, this remains to be seen) is cute, but has no charisma at all (see: Katie Holmes, can that be a coincidence?) and Tom Cruise once again proves that he can't act (ok, I know that there've been some rare exceptions in the past). But being an action-flick, this doesn't really hurt the movie badly. Although "Mission: Impossible III" loses a little bit in the last third, the overall result for this in the action movie summer 2006 is slightly positive.