Mission Impossible 3 DVD

Advantages: Good Action, Mainly Good Acting, Exciting, Tense
Disadvantages: Cruise = Dull

...I walked into Mission Impossible 3 with dwindling expectations. The original was a fun piece of escapism, but hardly worthy of a sequel and much less a third in the already over tired action genre. Fortunately -and surprisingly- I enjoyed every single moment of it, and found myself smiling, crying and edging closer to the edge of my seat as the film hurtled towards its touching and exhilarating final act. Mission Impossible 3 is a proper action film ...
...by the day and when Mission Impossible 3 opens with Cruise, beaten and bleeding tied to a chair being forced to see his fiancée cruelly slaughtered you know that this is going to join them. It is a tense scene. It is a scene displaying great acting. It is a wonderful introduction. But by lord it's a shock! It then allows the film to zoom back in time -leaving the audience gasping for breath and moving from the edge of their seats- to a place where ... Read review

Advantages: JJ Abrams, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman. better than the M:I II
Disadvantages: Ridiculous in parts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mission: Impossible 3. The movie star that guarantees global box office success has teamed up with the director who is now known to create small screen phenomena. Yes Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, aka Tom Cruise, has joined forces with Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, (better known as J.J. Abrams) creator of Alias and Lost, for the third installment of the multi-million dollar franchise. Question is, will Abrams make the transition from TV to movies or will he ...
...what Joel Schumacher did to Batman? Ethan Hunt, at his engagement party has seemed to finally put his secret agent past behind him. He has a beautiful new lady who goes by the name of Julia (Michelle Monaghan) and is living life to the full. However a phone call from his IMF agency ignites the flickering flame of curiosity for Hunt. After receiving what seems to be the possible mission, Ethan realises that it's in his blood and has to serve his ... Read review

Advantages: A decent third film in the set
Disadvantages: Tries to be something it isnt in places

...screens as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible 2. At the beginning of May he returned for the 3rd instalment in the series, ten years after the original brought Hunt to our screen's the first time round. Cruise has also taken a step up to not only star in MI:3 but also take a producers credit for his latest all action adventure. I decided that as I had nothing to do this morning that I'd go and see if the third part is as enjoyable as the previous 2. ...
...recruits to the IMF (Impossible Mission Force). Having met the woman of his dreams he took a step away from active duty, but when one of his prodigies goes missing he returns to aid in the rescue attempt. They track her to a warehouse and Hunt and his team go in after her to rescue her from a vicious arms dealer (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). When it doesn't all go according to plan Hunt takes it personally and vows to find out exactly what Lindsey (Keri ... Read review

Advantages: clever action sequences
Disadvantages: They had to blow up such a nice car.

...basically a continuation of a Mission Impossible saga, that originated from a television show. The first movie made was in 1996. It was called Mission Impossible and was directed by Brian De Palma, and the star of the show was Tom Cruise, playing the now famous supa' spy.. Ethan Hunt. With the help of the always great David Koepp, that movie was a delightful thriller/action movie that made good use of the fresh "man under the mask" idea. That movie ...
...called "Joyride". In Mission Impossible 3, we find supa'spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) as a retired IMF field leader. He is far from active duty and enjoying it. He is now training new IMF agents to become supa' spies like he once was. In a change of events, he is suddenly ripped away from the family life that he had just began to enjoy, to be confronted with a international weapons dealer that has a reputation for being slick and a very bad man. This ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining, Good Action
Disadvantages: Still those silly face masks

...the Caribbean and of course Mission Impossible III. Fresh from a year of tabloid print, scientology and vomit inducing outbursts on Oprah, Tom returns to his cash cow to reprise the role of Ethan Hunt. For me the first Mission Impossible film was ok but a tad confusing. The second film was quite annoying and pretty dull with a crap villain. Surprisingly it's third time lucky as MI:3 is an enjoyable popcorn muncher. In this one, Hunt has gotten ...
...were incorporated too much. A Mission Impossible film shouldn't feature long ponderous moments of reflection, it should be bang bang bang all the way through. The TV series was always a team effort with IMF agents pulling together to pull off an operation. The previous two films didn't play on that but thankfully this one does. Of course Hunt is at the centre of all operations and action but he can't do it without the help of his assembled team. ... Read review

Advantages: Some decent action
Disadvantages: Overly long, downbeat and po-faced

...Ethan Hunt has retired from active service in the Impossible Missions Force and is about to settle down and marry his nurse fiancée Julia, who knows nothing of his secret life. But at his engagement party he takes a call from IMF that reveals one of his protégés has been kidnapped while on a mission by international arms dealer Owen Davian. So Ethan goes in to save her. But things aren't quite as simple as they seem and he's soon back on the job, continent hopping his way round the world, trying to track down Davian before the villain finds and destroys everything he holds dear. There was a lot of hoo-ha when "Alias" director and "Lost" creator JJ Abrams was brought on board this blockbuster project. Could he compete with the big boys on the big screen? Well, if you want my opinion, the answer is no. He spends so much time trying... Read review

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Advantages: Fast paced action packed no-brainer
Disadvantages: Fast paced action packed no-brainer

...-- Tuesday 6th February 2001, 1400 hours Freshney Place Grimsby -- A 21 year old ciaoser by the handle of OctoberSwimmer is browsing around minding his own business when for some strange reason these words are playing in his head "OctoberSwimmer, your mission if you choose to accept it is simple, approach your local branch of WHSmith and take advantage of their 3 for £40 DVD offer, however you must ensure that one of those 3 DVD´s is Mission Impossible 2 and it is imperative that you return with the DVD to home-base and play the disc, this offer will self-destruct in 5 weeks". Almost instinctively OctoberSwimmer heads towards the DVD section fighting off a group of school-children who should be some place else, going into a tactical head to head with the mandatory fat guy who seems to appear at every DVD section in the land to gain... Read review

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Advantages: Smart, funny movie with a great cast
Disadvantages: No DVD extras!

...Director: Shane Black (Lethal Weapon series) Starring: Robert Downey Jr (Zodiac, Good Night and Good Luck) Val Kilmer (Batman Forever, The Saint) Michelle Monaghan (The Bourne Supremacy, Mission Impossible 3) Production Year: 2005 Running Time: 103 minutes Certificate: 15 DVD Extras: None Cost: Play.com - £4.99 Plot overview: This is very complicated so try and keep up. Harry (Downey Jr) is a thief, who accidentally ends up being taken to Hollywood after his partner is killed and when escaping stumbles into an audition. He is swept off to LA to audition seriously for a police drama film and is paired up with Private Detective Gay Perry (Kilmer) to learn the trade. When in LA he meets childhood friend Harmony (Monaghan) who is an aspiring actress there. Harry and Harmony both shared a love of old Johnny Gossamer spy books as kids... Read review

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