: Mission Impossible III
I hated the first film, which was horrible and way overplotted, but the second was good. This one falls in between the two. It’s not as good as the second but not nearly as bad as the first. It’s got some good moments, but they just don’t play that MI theme enough. For me, that’s what makes the movie (and the TV show). I hear that theme and I get goosebumps and whatever happens on screen is automatically cool. Here they only played it once, briefly, at the beginning, so that was the only cool part of the film. As for the plot, who cares? It’s action, not psychology like the TV show. This has a decent villain (Philip Seymour Hoffman in grand form) and your typical double agents (gee, quel surprise). There’s drama, but it’s forced and we’re not emotionally tied to any of the characters so it’s not like we really care. We just want to see cool missions and unfortunately there’s not enough of that (the ones shown are mediocre, at best). Overall, I’d say ho-hum, though watching this is not a terrible way to spend an afternoon.
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