Mission Impossible 3. M:I:III

Howitzer

Saw this last night.

It is excellent! Well worth seeing.
Great action, explosive sound and nicely filmed / edited.
Cruise and his team act well enough and are convincing.

It is a good recovery from MI2.
A true summer blockbuster. (if we get a summer that is!)
Enjoy

Basq

Yep.. am really looking forward to this.

As a big fan of JJ Abrams and the stuff he done on 'Alias', i know he'll really do a good job on this.

Cheers for the mini-review!

Necronomicon

I can't remember the first one, but thought the second was awful. Still, I'll probably see this, I'm interested to see how JJ Abram does on the big-screen.

TerrorFirmer

Echoing above, I thought MI: II was absolutely appallingly. Hopefully this will be the recovery you say it is - the first one wouldn't make it to my favourites list but an enjoyable film nonetheless!

munkeehaven

Colossal budget....is Tom Cruise human? How on earth does he keep up with all the stunts in that film..

Energizer

He keeps up with them by being a nut bar!!!

Should be a good flick though.

lodgepole

I'm a big fan of the first two films. I love the idea of getting a different director of substance on board for each film. The trailer for three looked really sharp. I'll probably catch it on Friday afternoon.

Pepe LeFrits

Given what JJ Abrams did with Alias, I don't see how this can fail!

lostexpectation

silly question but, what in these films is of 'Mission Impossible', other then the theme tune? Which is actually about all I can remember from the show itself?

Goodshape

Looking forward to this myself, and I don't usaully look forward to films like this. I actually really liked the second one... nice switch-your-brain-off action movie stuff. When the first scene is tiny wee Tom Cruise climbing freestyle up the side of a cliff, you get a fair idea of what you're in for. Switch off, relax, and go with the flow

Thought the first film failed by trying to be too 'smart' and failing.

lostexpectation wrote:

silly question but, what in these films is of 'Mission Impossible', other then the theme tune?

Nothing, as far as I know. But it is a good theme tune

monkeyfudge

From what I remember of the the show it was usually the MI team trying to trick some foreign operative into giving away secret information by means of an elaborate ruse.

I'm not a fan of the films myself.. but I'll go and see this one for Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Basq

monkeyfudge wrote:

I'm not a fan of the films myself.. but I'll go and see this one for Philip Seymour Hoffman.

A....MEN TO THAT!!

spacecoyote

yeah you're right about the link between the movie and show being pretty much just the title and the theme tune. the 1st one came slightly closer to the show. in the show there were a team of spies, getting a mission every week, with all of the spies getting their share of air-time, the movies are just plenty of ego-stroking for Tom Cruise with a few dispensable extras. didn't see either of 1st two in the cinema and found both movies pretty poor. will probably end up going to see it out of boredom anyway though (tom cruise to keep the girlfiend happy and plenty of big explosions to keep me happy!!!)

Lemming

"Mission Impossible" .... three of them. Maybe these aren't impossible missions after all .....

Bl00dy false advertising! I want to see Tom Cruise smeared across a wind-screen. THEN we can all agree it was mission impossible!

On a serious note anyway, first film was good. Second was appalling. Not to keen on number 3 after number 2.

lukin

I'm surprised so many people are saying they hated the second one, I really liked it, I watched it again when it was on RTE there recently.
I am a big fan of John Woo so that's why, I am probably biased.

segadreamcast

I'm gonna be brief on this one, I really enjoyed it - judging it as a popcorn movie alone, I'd give it a 7.5/10. Very enjoyable.

Majinlex

Lemming wrote:

"Mission Impossible" .... three of them. Maybe these aren't impossible missions after all .....

lmao.

I've boycotted this one cos Tom Cruise is a douchebag. Mostly because of the s**t he was pulling re: the South Park episode he was parodied in.
I would like to see it for PSH and Abrams (and I probably will get dragged to it) but as it stands now I'm not going.

Plus from the trailer it seems to be regurgitating MI2's "plot". Think I heard them say something like "We have 24 hours, otherwise my girlfriend(of the week) is dead"... and then he goes and jumps off a building exactly like in MI2:rolleyes: (could be wrong though)

J.R.HARTLEY

spacecoyote wrote:

yeah you're right about the link between the movie and show being pretty much just the title and the theme tune. the 1st one came slightly closer to the show. in the show there were a team of spies, getting a mission every week, with all of the spies getting their share of air-time, the movies are just plenty of ego-stroking for Tom Cruise with a few dispensable extras. didn't see either of 1st two in the cinema and found both movies pretty poor. will probably end up going to see it out of boredom anyway though (tom cruise to keep the girlfiend happy and plenty of big explosions to keep me happy!!!)

in fairness the third one does reassemble the IMF team and has them working as a unit, each depnding on the other (on a side note, in the original series there was aleays a lead spy or spies that got more time per episode than the rest), i saw it 3 hours ago and was very happy, a good old romp, some minors quibbles, mostly down to jj abrams, you can see his television background in a lot of the shots, far too many close ups. the epilogue wasn't as good as the rest of the film, but it was an incredible enjoyable last 20 minutes.

MisterAnarchy

lukin wrote:

I'm surprised so many people are saying they hated the second one, I really liked it, I watched it again when it was on RTE there recently.
I am a big fan of John Woo so that's why, I am probably biased.

Nope,I thought the second film was very good too.
A perfect cinema action film.

monkeyfudge

Went to see it this evening... It's certainly very enjoyable... it suffers from having Tom Cruise in it though as you know he isn't going to die which removes any sense of jepordy.

I wanted to see more of Hoffman in it too... he's very good and I want one of those Philip Seymour Hoffman rubber masks.

azezil

Howitzer wrote:

Cruise and his team act well enough and are convincing.

You've got to be shíting me! Those touchy feely bits were the most appauling scene's i've ever seen, half the people in the cinema were laughing out loud at how ridiculous the acting was!

Other than that, I enjoyed it, the action is very good, nicely put together. (apart from the "love" scenes)

DerryRed

Have seen the first one but not the second. Would you recommend seeing the 2nd before going to see III, or do the stories not really cross over?

Earthhorse

On the one had, this is a Mission Impossible film, which means it's going to be crud.

On the other hand, Michelle Monaghan.

Zapp Brannigan

Mission Impossible, I've seen the film 3 times and I still don't really know whats going on. I can follow it through about halfway then I start getting confused.

MI: 2, The most overly dramatic film ever! The scene with the Fire, the Doves and Cruise walking past the door!!

I'll prolly go see MI: 3 just cos nothing else is out.

kaimera

wow!

Summer blockbuster indeed.

Excellent set pieces, dirty and gritty brilliant bad guy, Ving Rhames and Larry Fishburn. Good to see the whole IMF team involved and some new chars introduced.

Lovey dovey ending but won't take that much away from an otherwise mint movie.

9/10

munkeehaven

i'd go see it for Hoffman..he is so good at being evil..mmm..

Peteee

Just back from seeing this, and I have to say, this is perfect summer blockbuster stuff.

Nicely paced, Nice technology, Nice women. Ving Rhames and Laurence Fishburne were cool as always. Acion sequences were generally good (Thought the first one could have used a bit of restraint in the direction and editing...too many shaky close ups and fast cuts.) but apart from that the direction was suitably good. Loved the bridge set piece.

Extremely slick all round I thought.

9/10 (Based aganst other blockbusters that dont take themselves too seriously)

humanji

I saw it tonight. It's pretty good, but does have a hell of a lot of flaws. Hoffman stole the show completely, but that's to be expected. Man I really just wanted to give him a smack! (Actually checking IMDB, apparently Kenneth Brannagh was to play his role, which could have been good). Cruise is as Cruise does and as said before, the fact that he's such a star really takes away from the tension in certain scenes.

I'm not a big fan of the director Abrams, and the bloody shaky camera was doing my head in. It was great for some of the action scenes, but when someone is walking calmly across a room, you don't need the camera bouncing all over the place. It was really starting to freak me out!

And the only major problem with the film is Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Seriously, he's Irish, why can't he do an Irish accent??? At the start I thought he was Australian. And the fact that he can't act to save his life doesn't exactly win me over either.

But it's still worth a watch. A popcorn movie that's by no means a waste of money.

monkeyfudge

oh yes... Wasn't Simon Pegg great in it? He made the most of a small role... which apparently was written for Ricky Gervais.

jesus_thats_gre

Hated the second but this one is pretty sweet.. Really really enjoyed it.. Angry Midget 3 gets 8/10..

J.R.HARTLEY

azezil wrote:

You've got to be shíting me! Those touchy feely bits were the most appauling scene's i've ever seen, half the people in the cinema were laughing out loud at how ridiculous the acting was!

Other than that, I enjoyed it, the action is very good, nicely put together. (apart from the "love" scenes)

if what you are refering to is the epilogue scene then everyone knows that was rubbish , otherwise please point out where in the film that hunts IMF team were touch feely

humanji

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

if what you are refering to is the epilogue scene then everyone knows that was rubbish , otherwise please point out where in the film that hunts IMF team were touch feely

Well the bit

as Hunt is in the building trying to steal the Rabbits Paw and the woman outside starts praying and the Irish twat asks her to teach him it. It was too late in the film to develope those characters and that moment was pointless, with no bearing on the plot at all. Thankfully it was cut short.

J.R.HARTLEY

that was a 20 second scene in a 2 hour movie man, hardly touchy feely.

Wacker

Not enough Hoffman for my tastes. He really is fast becoming my favourite actor. The scene where he is threatening Ethan's family was scarily evil.

Decent enough film.

krudler

i tought it was the best of the series,massive improvement over the 2nd one anyway least they gave hunt a team to work with this time, the masks were realisstically done and Hoffman is the best screen villain in AGES, always one step ahead of the hero,top start to the summer season,and i got to see the superman trailer before it,yay!

TerrorFirmer

Great movie. Wasn't overly looking forward to seeing it last night but it turned out to be the best espionage type movie I've seen in years. Easily beats any of the recent bond efforts and it goes without saying it was a zillion times better then the crapfest that was MI:2

Kingp35

Great start to the Summer blockbuster season. The action sequences, especially the bridge sequence, were excellent. I thought Seymore Hoffman was one of the best screen villians in the ast few years and great support from Fishburn and the underrated Crudup. Cruise was his usual average self, Rhys Meyers was pretty awful but again thats to be expected.

The only nitpick I have is with the scenes involving Cruise and Monaghan, they are just cliched and cringe worthy especially the scene on the hospital roof.

Anyway a thoroughly enjoyable espionage movie that I would recommend to all.

8.5/10

azezil

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

if what you are refering to is the epilogue scene then everyone knows that was rubbish , otherwise please point out where in the film that hunts IMF team were touch feely

Any of the scene's when he was with his wife were dreadfully done.
Other than that I really enjoyed it.

Paddy100

I thought it was brilliant. The best out of the series, i really enjoyed the first one but thought the second 1 was a piece of crap. i onlt seen that once and will never watch it again. Hoffman is excellent as the bad guy but deserves more time on screen. Cruise is Cruise, you know what your going to get with him. for a irishman, rhys Meyers must have one of the worst accents ever. he talks like an american trying to be irish......???? its weird.
Brilliant blockbuster film with a great storyline. if you didnt see 2, it doesnt matter. go see this anyway.

8.5/10

RE*AC*TOR

two words:

enjoyable nonsense

J.R.HARTLEY

azezil wrote:

Any of the scene's when he was with his wife were dreadfully done.
Other than that I really enjoyed it.

yeah but in fairness man the poster you replied to was talking about the IMF team not the full film crew.

i thought the IMF team worked very well together, and as someone who is old enough to remember when mission impossible was a tv series not a film, i loved it when the four of them went racing off after finishing thier italian mission, all together, to the powerful beat of the theme music. ah thats the way MI should be man,

spacecoyote

Cruise fails in figures mission

The Irish Examiner 09/05/06

TOM CRUISE'S Mission: Impossible III took an estimated $48 million (€37.7m) in the US on its opening weekend, but the figure was lower than anticipated. Variety said the total, which was almost $10m (€7.8m) below that of 2002's Mission: Impossible II, was below industry expectations and studio hopes.

It added that the previous film opened at 400 fewer cinemas. The latest movie in the series did beat Cruise's original Mission: Impossible, but only by $2.6m (€2m), and that opened a decade ago at 1,000 fewer venues.

About 7.3 million people saw the movie, compared with 10.7 million over the opening weekend for the second film and 10.3 million for the first one.

Variety added, however, that both the previous films opened on holiday weekends, when more people tend to go to the cinema.

And the studio behind the movie, Paramount, pointed out that it took $118m (€92.8m) worldwide, beating the $115m (€90.4m) made by Mission: Impossible II.

The lower-than-expected US figures came despite a high-octane worldwide promotional tour that saw Cruise leave his fiancee Katie Holmes and newborn daughter Suri at home to attend premieres and meet fans.

Some have speculated that the actor's antics over the last year, particularly the media frenzy over his relationship with Holmes, may have put movie-goers off.

© The Irish Examiner 2006

Haven't seen it yet, but will probably go for a look. Does anyone agree with the info above. I know i'm certainly fed up having to deal with Cruise's antics of late, and they do push me away from going to see his movies.

koneko

I'm not interested in another Mission Impossible film to begin with. It's the Scientology-related junk that's probably annoying people more than the katie-holmes-obsession, he has come out with some dumb statements over the last year, lives in some sort of cloud cuckoo land. Any money I give Tom Cruise he just uses to buy his girlfriend more DVDs featuring himself, or he'll just give it to that cult he's in

But really it's because I could care less about another yawn-fest MI film.

J.R.HARTLEY

i'd be wondering if it was cruises carry on over the past few months that put people off, or was it the last film(which could have been called anything, it was hardly a mission impossible movie), or was it a combination of both

Vokes

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

i'd be wondering if it was cruises carry on over the past few months that put people off, or was it the last film(which could have been called anything, it was hardly a mission impossible movie), or was it a combination of both

I wouldn't say so. I think the reason is the one stated in the article above - it wasn't a holiday weekend in the States this time around, so less ppl saw it.

TerrorFirmer

How much did the movie cost to make? Let alone it's 7m behind the 2002 MI2 figures, I'm sure this time around it cost alot more to make and market....

Vokes

Heres how the films compare:

www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Missio****ossible.php

EDIT: Pesky url

monkeyfudge

SofaKing wrote:

Heres how the films compare: http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Missio****ossible.php

Ha... word censor...

It cost over a €150 million then, and has only grossed €50 back so far...

segadreamcast

monkeyfudge wrote:

Ha... word censor...

It cost over a €150 million then, and has only grossed €50 back so far...

It has taken back €92 million so far MF... in one weekend. This movie will do quite well on word of mouth and - considering we have another week before the Da Vinci Code, it should clean up this weekend too.

Basq

Heh... nímp isn't a dirty word!

Nymph however...!

Duffman

Reasonably entertaining.

If I ever kidnap an enemy I'm definitely using of those head bomb thingies. Great idea!