One of the best spy thrillers ever made.

Rating: 9/10 (5 June 2006)

A smart, intense and incredibly fun movie, television veteran J.J Abrams has taken his meticulous method of storytelling and has applied it to make Mission Impossible III the best spy thriller since James Cameron's True Lies back in 1994.
This film is not just the annual Tom Cruise summer action blockbuster kids; it's an example of the true strength of "Lost" and "Alias" creator Abrams' film-making muscle.
Here he has proved that it is possible that dense plotting and strong character motivation can rivet audiences through both dialogue and terrific, nail biting action sequences.
MI:3 also boasts of the strongest casts in any action film. Period. Led by Cruise, who as usual proves that he can carry any movie on his $100 million dollar shoulders, the cast includes Laurence Fishburne, Billy Crudup and the always incredible Jonathan Rhys-Meyers who all get major kudos from me, delivering solid, serious performances.
And unlike previous Impossible Missions, this time there is finally more of an emotionally dynamic relationship between Hunt and Ving Rhames' Strickell.
I guess my biggest problems with the film lie in the ending of the film...the final three shots of the movie specifically which completely devalue the previous two hours of an otherwise serious and smart film.
Mission Impossible 3 is the first real worthwhile blockbuster of the summer.