Bullet blazing action bonanza

Rating: 7/10 (19 June 2006)

Mission Impossible 3: Wow! An adrenaline packed, bullet blazing action bonanza. The third of the MI films surpasses it's predecessors with dazzling velocity. Cruise does what he does best; run from bad guys (really fast), scream, cry and save the beautiful brunette. Although the plot is very simple and has a few holes, the explosive action and audacious stunts are enough to dazzle you into satisfaction.
Ethan (Tom Cruise) has decided to retire from front line work, taking a job training agents in an attempt to fully normalise his life and escape from the total madness which comes with saving the world every week. He is lured back into field work when one of the agents he trained is captured whilst trying to apprehend a notorious Black Market dealer named Owen Davian (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Ethan and his team then set out to find Davian themselves. With a very clever scheme they infiltrate the Vatican and kidnap Davian only to be ambushed once they reach American soil. Davian's men have kidnapped Ethan's new wedded wife and tell him that he has forty-eight hours to retrieve 'The Rabbit's foot', a $85 million dollar secrete weapon, and bring it Davian in exchange for his wife. Ethan has to work against the clock and even his own agency in an attempt to save his wife.
The missions are intricate and are executed swiftly. All involved give a good performance, especially Hoffman playing a very convincing Bady. But what really is 'The Rabbit's Foot'? Best scene: When Ethan is launched onto a glass skyscraper and slides down the sides whilst shooting oncoming guards. Great stuff.
If the goal was to surpass the previous two, then they should have called it 'Mission Quite Plausible'. Mission outcome: A complete success.