The McGuffin is still alive and doing fine in the third version of Mission Impossible

Rating: 9/10 (28 April 2006)

It's been a long time since the last Mission Impossible II film (2000), but No. III comes in with a gigantic bang. It has to be the best action flick of the year and a great film in any other sense. It keeps you on the edge of your seats all of the time and proves once and again that the Hitchcockian McGuffin is still as important nowadays as it was in Hitch's good days. Here it's referred to as a Rabbit's Foot. As all of us remember, the McGuffin is a device or plot element that catches the viewer's attention or drives the plot and is essentially something that the entire story is built around and yet has no real relevance. The action and the acting is so good that at the end nobody really cares about the Rabbit's Foot or McGuffin that caused all the fuss. Don't miss it if you like good action, modern cinematography, fast cutting, great chases and stunts done by none other than Tom Cruise himself.