MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 (MI:III) [review]

[princessaisly]

So I think that the Mission Impossible franchise is done, is over and it shouldn't be expanded any more, future sequels be damned! Of course I felt the same way after the first one. In fact I was so against the continuing of this story that I still haven't seen she second installment. So why did I go to the third one with my mother? Because it was on. Same reason I went to War of the Worlds and listened to Dakota Fanning get more annoying by the second with all that damn screaming... it was on and my mom wanted to go.

SPOILERS AHEAD

So this movie begins in media res (in the middle), there's something about a bomb in the head and his girlfriend/fiance/wife in danger. Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is pretty much retired, now all he does is train. Until a former student of his (Keri Russell, I know, Felicity. But you might notice a few actors from both 'Felicity' and 'Alias' in the movie. After all, JJ Abrams directed it, and he created both) is reported missing and he goes off on a mission to save her. She dies (reducing Keri's screen time down to under 20 minutes) and he goes out for revenge with fellow spies. It looks as if his boss (Laurence Fishborne-Morpheas from THE MATRIX) is working for the enemy (Philip Seymore Hoffman from CAPOTE) and he has to go rogue with 3 other agents. They get what the bad guy is after (after they fake his death and capture him, but he gets away after Ethan threatens him by dangling out of a plane midair). Turns out the bad guys capture Ethan's wife (yeah wife, they get married right before his big mission) and hold her hostage. In the end he finds out that he was wrong, it was his other boss (Billy Crudup) and he successfully kills both him and the bad guy, saves his wife. He tells his wife what his real job is and takes her to his lair, I mean office. She makes nice with all his coworkers and it ends happily ever after, or at least until the next sequel when good ol' Tom decides he needs to annoy us some more with another 'save the world' movie.

Now I used to like Tom Cruise, I loved a lot of his movies. TOP GUN, RISKY BUSINESS, THE OUTSIDES, and INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. They were some of my favorites, but with all the media frenzy-ing about him and Joey Potter, I mean Katie Holmes, it's hard to like him. The psycho jumped up and down on a couch on Oprah for Hubbard's sake (that's L. Ron Hubbard, founder of scientology & Cruise's alien pod chamber). He a grown ass man jumping on a couch, I haven't done that since I was 8. Then there was his absurd opinions on how Brooke Sheilds dealt with her PPD. What was he thinking commenting on something he has never and will never deal with? It made the whole world pray that Katie would get PPD herself. Poor girl, who wouldn't jump at the chance to date/marry/have a baby with Tom Cruise? Hundreds of millions of dollars, one of the most famous actors of all time, and a sex symbol to many? He'd hav me at hello too, at least before all this started. Now he'd be lucky if I'd take his call.

All throught out the movie I kept wondering when he was going to start jumping on a couch, in fact I wondered where his famous couch/co-star was all through out the movie. Perhaps he asked them not to put them in the movie as to not remind viewers of the infamous interview. After all, the incident sparked a cultural phrase that is used to describe when someone has lost their mind (jumping the couch). Where I usually enjoy most of JJ Abrams stuff, I just couldn't enjoy this one. After all, Tom is a victim of over exposure, making it almost impossible to believe him in any kind of role anymore when all you can think of is how crazy he is real life.

This is the imdb space:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317919/