I made sure I was out of the theatre before that song started. Amazing what they will do to sell a movie these days.
About the movie, I enjoyed it. It was fun and it had some good character moments. I do like they had the IMF team thing back which was almost abandoned in the other movies. Love the backup players (especially John Rhys-Meyers) and enjoyed seeing Keri (Russel).
A nice popcorn flick. I probably won't buy it but still enjoyable.

This is a really good movie. I'll definately be seeing it again.

Well, we all know what happens when you A S S U M E. We'll never know.. much like what was in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. It's left to speculation.

All that was said was the purpose in obtaining it..

In the end credits, the producers thank "The Hanso Foundation"

I saw it today, I liked it.

= J

This is the first time I recall seeing her in anything. I mean - WOW.

I thought the movie would have been absolutely perfect had they given Hoffman's character a little more screen-time. He just chewed it up. And if I could actually think of Ethan Hunt as a character and not a wound up Tom Cruise. But those are my only two meager complaints. The film was still heads and shoulders above what I thought it would be.

I enjoyed the movie, cruise may be a weirdo but he makes good movies for the most part. I would still rank Mission impossible by depalma as the best in the series by a good distance, abrahams mi3 2nd, woo's mi2 last but it was still a decent though not anyway near great. Back to MI3 Ethan Hunt was much more human in this movie but so many of the action scenes seemed retreads from other movies. the ending was bla, parachute scene and jump okay. good film not great. from the villians to bridge, total true lies, parachute mi2 hoffman was good in his scenes. keri russell and maggie Q were good. keri, felicity with a gun was believable that initial action scene was best of the film , better than the bridge. Never a good thing when best action scene is in the beginning of the film, bridge scene was preety good though a total retread. in fact the whole plot was a total retread.
billy crudup was a total cold fish meyer okay nothing special.
If i was Paramount i would be asking where did my 150 million go, considering cruise did not take an upfront salary. good action scenes but not enough to justify 150 million, they weren't making a man fly. i have scene better action scenes in much cheaper movies. Kayne west version of mi theme stunk.
I hope the movie does well financially because i am looking forward to mi4
Grade B or 7 out of 10

A friend with me thought the ending was a "CHiPs" ending and thought it was out of tone with the rest of the film.

I agree I found my self holding my breath during some of the action scenes, One of the best and most intense action movies I have seen in a long time, the bridge scene was freaking awesome. Maggie Q was very sexy just wish she was in it more.

One of the most exciting movies I have seen in theaters in a while.

Saw this yesterday and absolutely loved it. it was a hell of a ride and it was especially fun for the Alias fan in me to see Greg Grunberg and draw many parallels to Alias. Hell, Ethan Hunt was pretty much Sydney as a guy (just look at the openning interogation and the crying scenes), the meeting after the warehouse rescue was shot like an SD-6/APO briefing scene, and I did love that one Jack moment in the plane.

Maggie Q is stunning. I've never seen her before but I hope this isn't the last time I see her.

It's all the answers regarding Milo Rambaldi and the Others. Seriously, I have no idea and I was wondering about that too.

BTW, when that eerie bit of music played while Benji was talking about the anti-God, was I the only one wondering if Abrams and Co. were gonna give this movie a Rambaldi-esque subplot?

overall people really liked the movie.... not sure why it did that much

I also loved the bridge sequence. I wished Hoffman had about 2 more scenes where he got a chance to really chew some scenery. I thought he was menacing, yet not over the top.

Sure sounded good at the Alderwood 16 didn't it! (i'm assuming that's where you saw it..) They had it cranked up pretty good when I went.

Directions to Zion? Shares to the Hanso Foundation? Felicity's report card? Blackmail on Bob Sugar? The short list for the M:I-4 directors?

the whole shanghai section was awesome. i really want to go visit that city now, it looks absolutely spectacular.

Hate to admit it but I loved MI:III.

I thought it was pretty good but not great. I would really like to see a MI movie where somone from IMF isn't a mole or a traitor ... how about just some straight up missions?

Saw it yesterday afternoon at a matinee with only me and two other terribly annoying assholes that wouldn't shut up. I thought it was outstanding, and one of the best straight up action summer blockbusters in years. However... I have a few beefs with Mr. Abrams as a diehard Lost fan (some Lost plot points ahead as well)...



Awesome movie anyways, and I bet I'll be there again this weekend. Count me in for wanting more Cruise/Hoffman scenes as well.

i was thinking the exact same thing about the mole. i mean for one of the most highly, secretive, select group of people, a lot of higher ups seem to be rogue/bad/traitorous. doesn't seem that plausible.

very good action film though. a lot of scenes had me on edge and were very well executed. i think JJ did a really excellent job with his 1st big feature. i just wished the #'s were a little more inclined to give him other lucrative shots, but i don't think he'll fare too bad.

Cruise is just so likeable in these characters. so charismatic and good. i have yet to see a bad Cruise role, including "Far and Away".

i really liked seeing the genesis of the face mask creation. nice touch and thankfully it wasn't OVERUSED like in II. one question i had about 1 was how Hunt got ahold of a Phelps mask and well, it was answered in this.

very good, popcorn, summer, leave your brain at home flix.

To set the table....I thought the first in the Mission Impossible series was very good and I disliked the second one quite a bit. The latest entry is sort of a mix of the first two films maybe in a ratio of two parts first movie and one part second movie. That should have been enough to win me over and early on it was in the category of unremarkable & lacking in momentum but still good & enjoyable. I liked that they returned to concept of an actual Impossible Mission team like the first film as opposed to it being just a Tom Cruise action film. Despite his efforts to change my opinion, I am still a fan of Tom Cruise and he was fine in this film even though he seems to have reached a stage where he is just playing himself (or at least a more grounded version of himself). He certainly lacks neither for charisma nor screen presence...a true superstar. Another, albeit less significant, point of praise was for - wow! - Maggie Q in the red evening gown.

Unfortunately, while the film contained many elements which reminded me of my love for the first film, my overall verdict is closer to my dislike of the second film. While I hated the second one, this one simply left me apathetic; I felt nothing. Ultimately the film like its action scenes just felt stale.....everything was "been there done that". I found the action scenes only intermittently exciting. I don't think they were shot particularly well....not bad by any means just not deserving of praise either. Plus they were for the most part unexciting and lacking for suspense.....lots of sound and fury signifying nothing but the loss of some "red shirts". Honestly, these are the same re-fried action scenes we've been getting in every action film for the last god knows how long. Like the recent Zorro sequel, this film was too little too late (though this film was better than the Zorro sequel...damned with faint praise as that may be). The action in this action thriller was as tired as the battle scenes in all the recent "epic" films which just re-hash the software engine used for "Lord of the Rings" (while changing the colors) but still give you the same two big crashing waves of armies........yawn.

While the plot showed some early promise it degenerates into by-the-numbers Hollywood nonsense....which would still have been okay if the action set pieces had been in any measure successful in creating some greater forward thrust to things. Philip Seymour Hoffman was solid as the villain but his screentime is really quite limited....you really don't get your money's worth if you were going to see him. The romantic sidebar was equal parts affecting (early on) and annoying (later on)....and gee the girlfriend is a doctor (what else is new...I wonder if she is friends with the chick from "The Sum of All Fears").

Actually my reaction would have been far less cranky if it weren't for the awful last 15 minutes or so which effectively nullified the enjoyment I might have derived until that point. Besides being somewhat anti-climactic, it reflected some of the absolute worst tendencies in action filmmaking (along with an ill-fitting moment or two of light comedy which had been virtually absent until that point).

I suppose that's enough......at best "Mission: Impossible III" was headed - on a scale of poor/fair/average/good/very good/excellent - towards "good or a little better" but as I left the theater ultimately displeased, it scores only an "average" rating. Also, unlike "King Kong" or "War of the Worlds", I don't think you're missing a thing by not seeing the action scenes in theater......just wait for DVD. Glad I didn't have to pay for my ticket.

a couple of days later thinking about the mi3, how useless is that. I would have liked the movie more if the ending wasn't so bad. the retreaded action scenes and plot were somewhat forgiveable for a popcorn film but the lame ending was disappointing. mi2 at least for all it's faults at least had a decent ending, which made the rest of the film okay. i liked mi3 more than mi2 overall but the mi3 ending was garbage for a big budget summer action film.

since someone else mentioned it in the open, the mi mole in 3 straight movies is ridiculous. shutdown imf and the world would be a safer place. think something else up jj

just notcied the box office total worldwide is : $124,730,278

Saw it last night and loved it. Thought it was the best of the 3, and I like the first 2 a lot. One of the better action movies I've seen. 4.5/5.