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Mission:Impossible III I do not want to be anywhere near the theater when Kanye West finds out his Mission: Impossible theme song, the one Tom Cruise was RAVING about a few months ago, shows up in the closing credits instead of being boldly featured in a crucial scene during the movie. You think Lindsay Lohan threw a fit when her Herbie Fully Loaded song was relegated to the closing credits (the part of the movie no one sees because they are LEAVING the theater)? Kanye and his posse are going to do more than stomp out and cry in the bathroom. Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt - a leading member of the top secret Impossible Mission Force (IMF), who now trains agents instead of working in the risky field missions that are most likely to leave him dead. He has moved on, fallen in love with Julia (Michelle Monaghan), gotten engaged to her, and has the lovely lady believing he works in a boring job for the Virginia Department of Transportation. However, a new mission has been proposed by his boss, John Musgrave (Billy Crudup), and it's one too important to ignore. One of Hunt's former trainees, Lindsay (Keri Russell), is in deep danger in Berlin, possibly captured and compromised by the evil weapons dealer Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Ethan needs to go overseas, but, as we learn from the movie's opening sequence, his return to the field goes horribly wrong and threatens everything he cares about. Will Ethan be able to capture Davian and stop him from obtaining the elusive weapon known as The Rabbit? Is there any chance The Rabbit brings the audience Cadbury Cream Easter Eggs (because I am very hungry as I write this review and that would be so cool)? Mission: Impossible III has everything you want in an action movie including cool gadgets, dream cars, fast paced chase scenes, some cool explosions, hot babes for the guys and good looking guys for the ladies. You even get a moment where it looks like Ethan has become Batman with an awesome utility belt full of toys! Yes, director/co-writer J.J. Abrams has brought fun back to Mission: Impossible. From the elaborate scheme the IMF team uses to break into The Vatican to the their acknowledgement of the danger they face to witty interactions between the cast to hilarious attitude, reactions and dialogue from Simon Pegg - the gadget guru for IMF; Laurence Fishburne - the IMF chief and Ving Rhames - Ethan's trusted computer expert and pal; Abrams keeps the audience engaged throughout the movie, when he doesn't take a break to insert a sappy love story. The writing team of Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci give Mission: Impossible III a great story with plenty of twists and a globetrotting scenario worthy of a big budget blockbuster, but they go for one or two twists too many, which leaves the writing team stretching for our bad guy's motivation, and plenty of love story moments between Hunt and Julia that are painfully long and interrupt the action too often. If the dialogue between the two love birds was half as good as that between the IMF guys or the exchanges between Hoffman and Cruise, the love scenes wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb, but they do. Abrams makes Mission: Impossible III one of the most intense movies you will see this year, but you might want to sneak off to the bathroom when Monaghan and Cruise are exchanging lovey dovey looks. However, you better make it back to your seat as fast as possible because those love scenes are few and far between as Abrams fills the movie with jaw dropping action. You go to Mission: Impossible III because you like to watch stuff go boom (so don't be like the idiot sitting across the aisle from me who brought A BABY, who is probably deaf for life after sitting through the movie and screaming her head off the entire time!). Unfortunately, Abrams, who inserts some of the most death defying scenes you will ever see in a movie, leaves out a MASSIVE action scene where Ethan steals what might be The Rabbit. We see the mind-blowing way he gets into the building, the amazing way he escapes, but what about stealing it? Abrams is better than that, so I don't know why he cut out what could have been the most important 10 minutes of the movie. The ending is a bit cheesy and Abrams could have used Hoffman more, especially since he is such a deliciously cold and evil bad guy, with no real emotion except for hate and anger, which makes Hoffman's Davian come off as the best kind of villain - not imposing physically, but his actions and eyes make you realize how dangerous he can be, but Mission: Impossible III is entertaining. I can't wait for Mission: Impossible IV. 3 Waffles (Out Of 4) Copyright 2006 - WaffleMovies.com
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