The weakest of the mission impossibles

Rating: 7/10 (28 July 2019)

Out of all the movies in the series that began with a bang with Mission Impossible which became the highest grossing movie based on a tv show, then broke records with the John Woo sequel which has aged badly over time, there is the third one, directed by J.J. Abrahams in his feature film debut fresh off the successes of Lost and Alias and starring Tom Cruise weeks after he jumped on the couch on the Oprah tv show a year after his War of the Worlds became a huge hit for Steven Speilberg and Paramount. A teaser for the film played before King Kong and online and reaction was a bit mixed due to competition from other movies. The fourth one, which is the best in the series, came out during the holidays first in IMAX and then rolled out wide to much success. The last one, Fallout, became more successful, with more on the way following Top Gun: Maverick. This was also the first Mission Impossible to be distributed digitally in cinemas along with the 35mm prints and the first to be on bluray and hd dvd.