he's really in love with that telephoto-shaky-shaky, get a steady-cam or tripod goddammit!... I'd rather watch True Lies again...

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2006)

I had nothing to do last night so I thought, Why not watch MI3 at the local cinema? an hour later I sat down, turned of my cell-phone and the big silver-screen came to life...
And the first thing we get is the part we saw in the commercial and I went, "Hey, this is nice, just get that trailer-stuff out of the way so we would get all new stuff, just like in MGS2 where suddenly the main character was switched and the whole plot turned while not showing it in the trailers... nice and unexpected" but then I realized, it's going to be another one of those flashback-flicks.
And that it was, and another thing that annoyed me, was that they never used the theme-song to it's full potential, hell, we didn't get any real MI-themed events at all until the Vatican sequence...
Then we have the Telephoto-shaky-shaky, that I mentioned in the review summary, And this director is really in love with it. And why shouldn't he, it's a trademark from his TV-series... well no, for me, it got annoying. every action-part had it, and it smashed everything about the MI-theme... which is, these guys are pro's, they are smooth and slick in their movements... sometimes, in this movie, it was hard to guess what exactly it was that I was watching...
CGI? don't use it... the Berlin-helicopter-chase-through-the-field-of-windmills wasn't used nearly enough to it's potential. If SW3 taught us anything, it is that CGI is not good. It belongs to the dark side.
The plot? think True Lies but done by that pearl harbor guy... it was all painfully obvious... the agent/unknowing-wife relation, the attack on the bridge, everything...
This is basically a film done by the wrong type of director...
On a side-note. When I saw the trailer I got the impulse to begin a script on a action piece myself... When I saw the movie I realized that I had foreseen the whole plot already :S One funny part though... I couldn't stop giggle when I saw Simon Pegg as the investigator/scientist that spoke of the anti-god-thing...