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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
All Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) wanted to do was to retire and get married. After years of working for the IMF (Impossible Forces Force) as a highly-trained special agent, Ethan is finally ready to walk away from his secret life and settle down with the love of his life, Julia. But, naturally, just as he finally gets out, Ethan is pulled right back in.
Ethan learns that a former prodigy of his has been kidnapped, apparently by the ruthless black marketer Owen Davian, and he cannot pass up the chance to be a part of the rescue mission. But when she ends up dead and IMF director John Brassel (Laurence Fishburne) begins asking questions, Ethan is forced to stick around to clean up the mess.
He soon learns that the murderous Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is negotiating the sale of a deadly weapon, called the Rabbit’s Foot. Ethan reluctantly assembles his IMF team, including good friend Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) to retrieve the mysterious Rabbit’s Foot and give Davian over to U.S. custody. They set off to Vatican City, where Davian is supposed to meet a prospective and sell the item for a healthy eight figures. Combing stealth with precision, Ethan and his team craft a brilliant operation. The plan goes off without a hitch. Ethan retrieves the Rabbit’s Foot and detains Davian with relative ease.
But evil is brewing back home. It is discovered that a high-ranking IMF insider is working actively against Ethan and the recovery operation. And when the convoy carrying the group back to IMF is ambushed and Davian and the Rabbit’s Foot are recovered, Ethan soon learns that his secret life and love life are about to experience a nasty collision.
As expected, Mission: Impossible III delivers jaw-dropping action and special effects. Dozens of scenes depict trigger-happy, bomb-obsessed action. It is the action movie lover’s dream. Ethan takes down a jet with a shotgun. Two remote-controlled airplanes use heat-guided missiles to cut up a bystander-filled bridge like paper. Bullet-riddled cars wind through Tokyo and Vatican City. Ethan goes careening down a skyscraper, making sure to take out as many bad guys as possible while freefalling towards certain death. Several characters engage in over-the-top fistfights. And that’s just a taste of the excitement of Mission: Impossible III. The special effects and cinematography are equally impressive, adding considerable eye candy to an already busy script.
Although M:I III doesn’t stop to answer many of the questions it poses, (such as, what is the Rabbit’s Foot? Who is Davian? Who is the Rabbit Foot being sold to?) This doesn’t detract from the movie. So much is going on that the viewer really doesn’t care who Davian is. They just know they are supposed to hate him. Director J. J. Abrams does a noteworthy job of keeping the audience interested in other facets of the movie, rather than letting them focus on what they don’t know.
Tom Cruise, however insane he may be in real life, excels at breathless action movies. The other Mission Impossible movies, his recent blockbuster War of the Worlds, Top Gun, you name an action film with Cruise in it, chances are it is pretty good. And this is certainly no exception. I especially liked how the writers entangled Ethan’s love life and professional life in the climax of the movie. It adds a haunting reality to an otherwise unrealistic but riveting plot.
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