All the reviews of this film I read, had three things in common.
1) All talked about Mr. Cruise not jumping on couch in the movie!
2) All talked about how the movie has seemingly been influenced by his personal life.
And before mentioning the third common point, I would just like to tell that I have no interest whatsoever in his personal life (his wife and his daughter, whatever her name ’Suri’ may mean!)
3) The movie has almost no story but is full on action.
Co-produced by Tom Cruise and co-written and directed by John Abrams, Mission Impossible 3 is the third movie of the series adapted from TV series of same name. Tom Cruise continues to be Ethan Hunt, the dare devil agent of secret Impossible Mission Force and for the first time has a girlfriend/wife (Michelle Monaghan) to care for and a boss (Lawrance Fishburne) to answer to.
The best and worst thing in the movie is the villain. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Owen Devian, an arms dealer. The best thing is that he plays this part really menacingly and looks every bit his part. The worst thing is that his role is very short and his scenes with Hunt are very few and very short and very badly conceived.
What about the much talked actions? Honestly speaking there is not a single scene that can be remembered as the one in which Hunt hangs by a cable barely above floor all stretched (MI) or the amazing bike chase (MI2). Some scenes which could have been memorable (Hunt doing Spidey stuff in Shanghai) have been marred by jarring camera movement. I could not follow exactly what is happenning on screen! But some sequences are really breathtaking like the chopper chase through wind mills.
All the usual MI gadgets are present including the masks (for the first time ever, we have been shown a mask actually being produced and voice being copied!) and hi-fi explosives.
So all-in-all if you are an action buff and enjoy the deafining sounds of missiles and bombings and crashes and couldn’t care less about the story go for it.
My rating: 3/5
PS: I love the theme music, but that too is almost absent in the sound track and appears only during the casting in the beginning and ending credits!