Mission Impossible 3 Review

Took in MI 3 last night, and I have to say it did not deliver leaving me disappointed.

Now I am able to seperate hype from the actual movie itself, and there was certainly more than enough hype surrounding this film. When it was all said and done though, I think that this was maybe the worst of the three to be honest.

Just a few random rants about why I didn't think it lived up to my expectations.

• You can't have a character who is a spy have a wife. In this third installment of MI, for some reason they give Ethan Hunt a wife. When you are a spy, it's automatically guaranteed that you get more ass than a toilet seat in a lesbian bar. You never heard James Bond say to a hot and willing woman "Sorry, I'm spoken for."
• Just overall lack of action. A lot of people knocked MI 2 because it has just crazy over the top action. Personally, I loved that and was looking for more of the same in the third one. It was just too spread out, and even the action scenes they had were not as exciting as they were in MI 2.
• When I saw the initial trailer it was the scene were Phillip Seymour Hoffman, (who was the villain) saying he was going to hurt Ethan's wife, make her cry, make her scream his name right before he killed her. In the movie this scene is actually pretty good as Hoffman just goes on and on about how he is going to kill Hunt and his wife all the while being tied down and surrounded. I thought Hoffman was going to be a serious bad-ass villain, and he was, yet he is not in the movie as much as he needed to be. It just centred way too much around Cruise, and Cruise himself. They really dropped the ball with not having more screen time for Hoffman's character.
• The gap in Lawrence Fishburne's teeth just annoyed me. And every time he talked, there was always this massive close up of it so you could not miss it. I wanted to see if I could kick my popcorn container through the goal posts known as his two fornt teeth at one point it bugged me so much.

I would give this movie like a 6 out of 10. Maybe because I had such high expectation going in, it wasn't fair. But I really liked the first two, and three should have outdone both of them I figured going in.

Although one funny part, and I don't know if it was an inside joke or by design at the very end Cruise's character walks off with his wife, and all of the other agents in the background all put their arms up like when he was acting like a jackass on Oprah. It was pretty funny and for all the flack he takes about that appearance, its good to see he can laugh at himself.

Wait for it on rental, you are not missing anything spectacular by any means.