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Mission: Impossible III (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 212 Fresh: 148  Rotten:64 Average Rating: 6.6/10
 
Consensus: Fast-paced, with eye-popping stunts and special effects, the latest Mission: Impossible installment delivers everything an action fan could ask for. A thrilling summer popcorn flick.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins

Theatrical Release: May 5, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $133,382,309

Synopsis: J.J. Abrams, creator of small-screen hits ALIAS and LOST, makes his feature film debut with the third installment of this successful series based on the hit 1960s television show. Secret Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has decided to take it easy and lead a somewhat normal life. He's even found... J.J. Abrams, creator of small-screen hits ALIAS and LOST, makes his feature film debut with the third installment of this successful series based on the hit 1960s television show. Secret Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has decided to take it easy and lead a somewhat normal life. He's even found his perfect woman, Julia (Michelle Monaghan), and is engaged. But when newbie agent Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell)--whom Hunt mentored--goes missing while on assignment, the reluctant agent finds himself back in business. Soon, with his old buddy Luther (Ving Rhames) in tow, along with team members Zhen (Maggie Q) and Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Hunt is traversing the globe on the trail of Farris's captor, Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an elusive international weapons dealer. The stakes increase when the villainous Davian gets a hold of Hunt's fiancée and uses her as a bargaining chip. A raucous combination of spectacular chases, explosions, amazing stunts, and elaborate schemes takes the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) team to Berlin, the Vatican, and Shanghai. With fascinating hi-tech tools these secret agents can impersonate virtually anyone, scale walls in an instant, infiltrate the tightest security system, and blow up the evidence when they're done. But facing their most formidable foe ever, Hunt and his fellow agents are fighting the clock to keep Julia alive and get Davian the mysterious weapon he is demanding. Cruise's personal involvement in the stunts lends a nice air of authenticity to Hunt, who also shows his emotional side in this outing as he juggles his secret life and his new love, as well as possible betrayal by someone inside the IMF. Laurence Fishburne also stars as IMF's Director Brassel, and Billy Crudup appears as his somewhat timid right-hand man, Musgrave. [More]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Philip S. Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne

Director: J.J. Abrams
Screenwriter: Alex Kurtzman-Counter, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams
Composer: Michael Giacchino

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 30, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case - Sensormatic
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Tom Cruise - Star, J.J. Abrams - Director
  • Deleted Scenes (5)
  • Featurette - THE MAKING OF THE MISSION

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Without an outsize directorial vision it looks even more like sub-007 than the others did.

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...this snappy installment is a marked improvement over John Woo's surprisingly dull sequel, though the set pieces lack the elegance and visual coherence of the Brian de Palma original.

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David Ansen
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The sad truth is that Ethan will always be better at saving the world than saving his marriage and fans of the first two films are likely to find the agent's journey of the heart an unwelcome distraction

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08/02/07
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film
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3/4

Mr. Abrams, it seems, has chosen to accept his mission. And I'll be darned if he doesn't succeed.

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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
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4/4

Sit back, and simply enjoy all the spectacular stunt work, chase scenes, f/x, pyrotechnics, gunplay, and comic relief with your brain on idle and a big tub of popcorn in your lap.

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01/11/07
Kam Williams
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3.5/4

Given a story that calls for emotion, Cruise shows the turmoil his character is going through

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12/13/06
Michael A. Smith
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3/4

Abrams and Cruise deserve credit for breathing life and heart into a franchise with lots of potential.

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09/27/06
Todd Hertz
Christianity Today
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09/10/06
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses
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B+

Not perfect, but it packs plenty of great action, special effects that don't astound but don't detract, a truly good bad guy, and a cool as ever Cruise missile.

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08/14/06
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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4/5

Suri's daddy elevates Impossible franchise ...

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07/27/06
Michael Clawson
West Valley View
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3/4

La cinta se siente fresca y actual, lo que le da nueva vida a una franquicia que parecía haberse agotado con tan sólo dos entregas.

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07/16/06
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola
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... the best-told Mission: Impossible adventure yet.

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07/07/06
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International
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3.5/4

Tom is a superhero. His superpower is INTENSITY, for which there is apparently no kryptonite.

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07/02/06
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
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There are plentiful perilous countdowns, most of the set-pieces are impressively mounted and, in its own silly way, the pay-off offers a glancing blow at US foreign policy. Relatable? No. But quite fun.

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06/24/06
Ben Walters
Time Out
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The summer's first action epic does exactly what it's supposed to do, more clearly than M:i:I, and more likeably than M:i:II.

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06/22/06
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Abrams shoots virtually everything in close-up, has no skill in establishing space, and is only in his element when people are talking. And talking. And talking.

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06/01/06
David Poland
Movie City News
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Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff to this summer's movie season, I had a tough time recalling what I'd just watched.

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06/01/06
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
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4/5

I can't say that Mission Impossible 3 didn't live up to what I was anticipating even though I liked the 2nd one a wee bit better. I'll buy whatever J.J. Abrams is selling.

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05/28/06
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
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2.5/4

Flatters moviegoers who want to believe their loved ones can never know their true depths, and that deceptions and 'disguises' are a necessary part of life.

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05/26/06
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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6/10

Delivers some rousing sequences that are sure to delight and enthrall audiences looking for some mindless, high-octane, escapist entertainment.

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05/25/06
Jim Judy
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