Hoffman's performance shines in an impossible trilogy!

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2006)

There are spoilers in here so read at your own risk!
Ethan Hunt is back, leading his Impossible Mission Force on another inter-agency conspiracy calamity. Let's just say if there is a Senate Over-site Committee on Intelligence, IMF would be shut down. Three movies, three inter-departmental problems where IMF is battling IMF, three times the tax payer's monies (that's you and I dear readers/movie goers) are being spent on this conspiracy. This is the modus operandi of J.J.Abrams.
Look at ALIAS. Cruise did. He loved it. He hired J.J. (for the record, I always thought that ALIAS was the twenty-first century Mission: Impossible.) and before you can say Ollie North, M: I: III is back in business again with all the lip reading, bomb in the head, save the world from toxic dangers, and love interests to boot.
The action is fast paced and the editing is sometimes a little hectic. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character is fantastically devilish and unlike Darth Vader, he can not be saved. It is worth going to see his character Owen Davian alone.
One of the things the M: I series is missing is the scene where Ethan Hunt would choose his team from pictures/files, discarding most, and picking the stars in the show. This way we could see a plethora of other actors in the M: I universe and have Cruise make a comical facial expression as he discards David Hasselhoff, Pierce Brosnan, or Nicole Kidman's profile for the mission at hand.