Mission: Impossible 3 [4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital]

First time I saw this sequel. Loved it, especially since it explained how Ethan was separated from Julia, his wife. That side story was great. Suspenseful on all levels: action, evil vs. good, athleticism, schemes, emotional aspects, plus more. I like this best of all his MI movies.

Thumbs up for this movie.Four out of five stars.

Who knew working for the Department of Transportation could be so difficult and dangerous? And a bit of humor when he breaks out of the IMF building and surfaces through a grate in a Virginia DOT office. And the unique use of baseballs. For me, this movie is when the franchise really hit its stride. Although there was no self destruct message which has been the trademark. But there is the wire and cable work, the making of the rubber face masks, the chases and the physical action that makes it fun to watch. And his team is really taking shape for future movies with the addition of Simon Pegg in a larger role. It also gives the back story of his wife, Julia, which he then has to abandon as knowing her whereabouts endangers her life. I rarely give 5 stars, but this movie is a solid 4 ½ stars minimum. There really is almost non-stop action, suspense, and suspicions of deceit that makes for a fine adventure. It seems to me that this movie really brought into focus the pattern for future movies in the series.

I avoided the third installment of Mission Impossible for the same reason a lot of people did: Tom Cruise. It's a tradeoff: a bankable star becomes a liability if you happen to dislike him. Of course, the people who don't like these big budget stars are usually not substantial enough to affect sales. Given Sumner Redstone's, CEO of Paramount, decision to cut ties with Cruise, it seems that his outrageous antics finally caught up with him.And that's a shame, because Mission Impossible III is really good.The problems I've had with the other installments revolved around what happened to the original conceit of the series: it was a carefully planned operation performed by a team. Being privy to the operation in the beginning, we worried for each agent as they performed their particularly dangerous and important task. This is the whole symbolism of the burning fuse: the agents light the fuse, but the conclusion is an inevitable explosion. In short, we knew what to expect and got it at every episode, even if there were a few twists and turns along the way.Thus making Mission Impossible a star vehicle is against the spirit of the series. There's no one star agent; there can't be, because every agent is important. Right? The first two movies forgot that point.In MI3, J.J. Abrams brings the series back to its roots. In essence, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) performs a standard mission extraction. They pull it off perfectly. There's just one problem: the bad guy (Owen Davian, played with chilling aplomb by Philip Seymour Hoffman) refuses to be interrogated. Utterly unafraid, he begins interrogating his interrogator. And suddenly, MI3 has been turned on its ear.What if everything went right, asks Abrams, and it still all went horribly wrong?What's so refreshing about MI3 is that even when Hunt defects, even when he's not sure who's on his side, his team sticks by him. When he goes rogue, his team goes with him. And when he goes on a mission to stop Davian, his teammates are right there in the mix, risking their lives for their leader.There are some amazing scenes, including a sliding fight on the rooftop of an office skyscraper and a helicopter battle in a wind turbine farm. Add into the mix a ticking time bomb and the tension and action keeps the audience on its toes.By never forgetting what made Mission Impossible great, Abrams brings the magic back. And Cruise delivers without hopping on a single couch.

After getting away from the MI theme in MI II (I felt) the makers moved back toward the MI cloak and dagger motif in this film. Ethan Hunt is now an MI operative trainer. His first trainee gets ambushed, captured. He and his team have to go capture her. They do but she dies in their arms, literally. But she sends him a secret note detailing a traitor in the MI upper ranks. Ethan feels that since he is not in the field anymore he is safe in building a normal l ife. He marries. Well . . . that is the weak point the new bad guy exploits. Drama, action, adventure ensue.First off it was a good action/adventure movie. But it was not so much about the government, spy stuff like it should be. More so than MI II. But still the wife thing was a distraction. Out of place actually. Anyway whoever wrote this movie was a sicko. To use such things to emotionally manipulate the audience is just sick. It is effective. But sick. This movie should have been an R movie. It was a little too much. Anyway while the romance stuff lent itself to the action/adventure I personally feel that this movie should be more about spy related stuff. Government stuff. Not love. But again they brought that into this movie for whatever reason.There are some really impossible scenes in this movie that made me say out loud "Come on!". I mean who can be dead for 15 minutes while someone goes on a killing rampage only to be revived with CPR? No one. Sorry. That is really too impossible. And the dead waking up and grabbing a gun. That is really impossible. But it is the movies. It is just over the top in my opinion. I remember rolling my eyes in the theatre wheen I saw this there when it came out. Just too much.

All actors and actresses demonstrated an amazing performance. Tom Cruz kept me on the edge of my seat. He is such a great actor!

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Tom Cruise's Ethan was sort of one-note in the first Mission: Impossible. Then the producers tried turning him into the American James Bond in M:I II. This third film finds Ethan as a man desiring to have a normal life with a wife and potential family, but he still gets dragged back in to save the world. Ethan isn't necessarily an extraordinary man, but more so a man who finds himself in extraordinary situations and must take the risks no one else will take with a bit of experience and a bit of luck. He isn't James Bond. He isn't Jason Bourne. He is Ethan Hunt.

Excellent film lots of action

Mission: Impossible III is the third film based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible. It's directed by J. J. Abrams and stars Tom Cruise (reprising his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt), Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne, Maggie Q & Simon Pegg. Location filming was spread across China (Shanghai and Xitang), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Rome and Caserta), the United States (California and Virginia), and Vatican City.Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty and is enjoying contented bliss with his future wife Julia (Monaghan). However, he is called back into action to help rescue one of his former IMF pupils from the bad guys. This brings Hunt into a conflict with evil arms dealer Owen Davian (Hoffman) and sets the wheels in motion for a good versus bad battle that could spell disaster for anyone close to Ethan.If you believed the Tom Cruise haters then you would think that he needed a hit so badly he trundled out a second sequel to the popular Mission Impossible series. However, since this came a year after the gargantuan success of War of the Worlds, and two years after garnering praise for his turn in Michael Mann's Collateral, it's clear this is more than just a cash in job. Cruise cares about the franchise, and tho no quotes suggest it, he possibly felt that Mission Impossible 2 was tepid and not befitting the entertaining core he wants for the series. So enter J. J. Abrams, who slipped into the director's chair vacated by David Fincher (off to work on Zodiac) and Joe Carnahan (upset about the tone of the story). It was an inspired choice by Cruise, for Abrams, already a TV darling after Lost & Alias, wanted to personalise Hunt whilst returning to the techno trickery of Bruce Webber's original TV series. And he got it. What he also got was Cruise on mega action star wattage form and an end product to sit with the best action film's of the year. It also became easily the best film of the trilogy after the convoluted first film and John Woo's safe, but uninspired, sequel.It's silly of course, very much so, but it's the kind of whizz bang silliness that often sinks lesser action movies. It's true to say as well that the personalisation of Hunt, IE: the dreaded romance angle, is nothing less than standard by the numbers fluff. The writing in truth could have done with spending more time with the splendidly vile Hoffman than with the Cruise & Monaghan (engaging and fine enough) axis. While the support cast all fade weakly into Cruise's shadow as he totally dominates from start to finish. But this is about bang for your buck nonsense, where excellently constructed action sequences flow thick and fast and the gadgets (brain bombs are just brilliant) are never in short supply. And so we come back to the Cruise haters, who, I can guarantee will hate this with their every breath. Because this is Cruise: The Movie, perhaps the ultimate superstar vehicle of the last decade? But whisper it to them quietly, he's pretty darn good at the action stuff, and Abrams knows this too, and directs accordingly. A third sequel will arrive in 2011, as an action movie fan I'll be first in the queue. 8/10

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Der dritte Teil besticht alleine durch die herausragende Leistung von Philip Seymour Hoffmann

Another mission impossible film transfered to 4 k very well indeed