An improvement over MI II

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2019)

Mission Impossible III is the third installment in the Mission Impossible series and has Tom Cruise reprising his role as Ethan Hunt. In this Mission Impossible Ethan Hunt and his team must stop a sadistic arms dealer after he threatens Ethan Hunt and his wife. After Mission Impossible II, John Woo left the franchise and J.J. Abrams took over. Before J.J. Abrams directed Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness this was his directorial debut. So the previous events of Mission Impossible II are gone and this has no connections to the previous film so you can watch this film and not be confused. Paramount realized that MI II wasn't the best one because it had way too many flaws and plot holes and they have learned from their mistakes and made some improvements. In the end the results are clear that the Mission Impossible movies have come a long way as the team behind the Mission Impossible franchise have dropped the action packed with a rock n' roll soundtrack to combing spies and action all in one movie. This movie is simple from the plot to the characters as it shows that its not trying to be the next big blockbuster, but to have an action packed movie that's fun and enjoyable. In a way I consider this to be the end of a trilogy as we see Ethan Hunt torn between being a spy and being a new husband and leave his old life. And we have an amazing villain portrayed by the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman as he breaks Ethan Hunt because unlike in the previous films Ethan Hunt gets addictive to the spy lifestyle. Ethan also has to find something called the Rabbit's Foot, which I assume is a virus, but we don't know that because they never give an explanation to it. Not everything needs an explanation and quite frankly I didn't care what the Rabbit's Foot was in the first place because I enjoyed this film and I don't want to see something that the writers came up with on the spot. Overall, this is the best one in the franchise as it's a simple fast paced action movie that does it job and knew what it wanted to be.