Review of:Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Director:J.J. Abrams
Rating:PG-13 for intense sequences of frenetic violence & menace, disturbing images & some sensuality.
Starring:Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan
Maybe it was Impossible that this film could stand up to its predecessors. I went in feeling that this could quite possibly be the best film in the series. Who would have thought otherwise? You had an Academy Award winning actor in Phillip Seymour Hoffman (who I thought did a great job by the way), and the Icon known as Tom Cruise. On top of that you had possibly the hottest director on the planet in J.J. Abrams directing. It was totally plausible that this could have been the best spy movie of all time.
Verdict after seeing the film? I have to take a line from my girl Whitney Houston on this one, “Oh, hell to the naw.”
The film didn’t leave me feeling that warm fuzzy feeling between my left ventricle and the place where I carry all of my testosterone. On the contrary, I felt as if somebody had started estrogen treatments on me. Remember the scene in the second film where he rides the motorcycle on the front wheel, and the back wheel is hanging in the air for what seems forever. I do, and I can remember almost standing up in the theatre yelling, “That’s freaking Impossible!”
If you haven’t figured it out by now I’ll let you in on a little secret. I liked the film, but not enough to pay theatre prices. I thought since there was a very personal feel to the trailer (the bad guy was going after family, how much more personal can you get than that) that the storyline would be very personal. I didn’t get that feeling while watching the movie. Let me ask you. What would you do if someone was threatening to do all sorts of things to your family? You’d probably come unhooked right, and if you had the chance you’d settle matters as fast and as furious as humanly possible. I didn’t feel that from Cruise. I’m thinking more along the lines of when he went to take care of that fellow in War of the Worlds as to how he would have dealt with that matter. Now that was gritty, slapped on the sides by grime.
From now on there is no holding back. If you can’t deliver the goods you’re getting dropped on Reviewguy Online. Just imagine this as the punt that sent this “see it at home film” through the goal post.
