Mission: Impossible 3
Year: 2006
Length: 126 Minutes
Category: Action
Cast:
If you have watched Alias, then you have seen this movie. If you can get past Tom Cruise’s recent nuttiness, then this movie may be for you.
Basically, Felicity gets kidnapped but it is a double double-cross. Tom Cruise pulls off a big kidnapping/heist which ends in a double cross. His wife is kidnapped so he has be the rogue agent, but his friends help him. He escapes or enters maximum security places at least 4 times in the movie. Then there are some reveals of the double-crosses and a big conclusion where he saves his wife who although a civilian can handle a gun better than Dirty Harry.
A small warning to watch this movie on DVD. It slows WAY down in parts… hence the 2 cube rating.
Some things to watch out for:
- The tech guy that is a version of the Alias tech guy with a British accent.
- Hydraulics on Ving Rhames keyboards
- Tom Cruise crying or tears welling up 4 times (an Alias special)
- The weapon that could destroy the world rolling around in the heaviest traffic I have ever seen at 2 in the morning.
One Comment
To me, the sign of a truly spectorqular movie is one that even though its bad, if it happened to be on cable while you were channel surfing, you’d be stuck on the couch for the next 80 minutes and you wouldn’t touch the remote. This movie fails that test miserably. Some of the action is cool (see more comments below), but Andy is right on when he says it drags in places. In the theater, I looked at my watch at least 3 times, which is never a good sign for any movie, let alone a spectorqular one.
In order to watch this movie on cable, you’d have to TiVo it, take the dog for a walk, make a sandwich, then check your email. After that, you can go back to the TV, and start at the beginning of the recording so you can fast forward through the dull parts and get to the half of the movie that’s actually worthwhile. Just hope you don’t catch up to the live broadcast before the movie ends.
And about that action… Why is it that every doomsday chemical/biological
agent/whatever is contained in the most unstable form imaginable? Something that can kill millions of people, and its in a glass canister? What? That’s as bad as the VX nerve gas from The Rock that was held in little plastic balls more fragile than egg. And why does Tom Cruise have to jump a big hole in the bridge to shoot at a helicopter that’s above him? I could ask more, but you get the idea…