Mission Impossible 3.
Please be aware before reading any more. I do not like this movie. I was not impressed by this movie and i make no bones about this in this review. If you do like the movie and think it is the epitomy of an action movie and that Mr Tom Cruise is a paragon of acting virtue. Then i would strongly suggest you do not click on the cut.. because... seriously.. you won't like it in there.
You know I really wanted to write a review about this movie. In fact I really wanted to watch this movie. It has Simon Pegg in it.. who I adore as an actor and admire as a human being because of his whole attitude to the whole “being and actor ” thing and “working in Hollywood” idea.
My problem is… I watched 30 minutes of this Tom Cruise self indulgent ego trip and had to turn it over to watch something else (which I think turned out to be a couple of episodes of Warehouse 13 but I digress) - which is marginally longer I think that Code named Alexa and Dragonquest (seriously if you want either of these two movies I will give them to you with no quibbling)
Yes.. This is one of those movies that makes me mentally scream in pain and want to hit the screen. Or go over to LA find the people responsible and harangue them for a Full 60 minutes.
The basic premise. Ethan what ever his name is (cruise) has retired from active service and is now a trainer for IMF agents. Living a “normal” life he is about to get hitched to his girlfriend…..apparently one of his protégé’s (I am sure the fact that she’s a pretty leggy blond has no effect on the situation) is stuck/captured/lost/ or something in somewhere vaguely eastern European??? (but it is quite obvious that its infact just a dodgy old warehouse somewhere in LA… ) she’s been disavowed and so Ethan manfully decides to drag the team back together and break all the rules to get her back…
Lots of unnecessary getting the team back together later and Ethan is in the dodgy warehouse squaring up against goon central and rescuing the girl.. er protégé. Cue running shooting, action… then into the escapemobile… aka a huey helicopter and a flight into a wind farm while being chased by an awesome attach helicopter with missiles an stuff… which suffering from extreme stormtrooper syndrome can’t hit the inside of a barn door at ten paces… despite having what I would guess at beign one of the better targeting and attack systems that you tend to get in an attack helicopter… and then of course the pilot has a moment of really extreme insanity and decides to follow the huey through an extremely stupidly insane (and i suspect largely vaguely impossible - I need to check with engineer friends) trick of flying through the rotating blades of a wind turbine…… (What is it with these movies and insanely stupidly unlikely stunts in helicopters????? - and why the hell would the pilot of the following helicopter do that??? What would possibly make him suffer lemming syndrome that badly to make him try to fly between the rotating blades of a wind turbine? Especially when all he has to do is fly up and over said turbine and then out fuly the guy on the other side!!.. really are pilots of attack helicopters really that suicidally insane???).. but..er.. yeah… on the huey though the rescue is having a bad time of it. It turns out that the UBER-BAD-GUY has implanted her with a brain bomb chip thing… after much grimacing of pain and manly words of manliness by Ethan he takes far to long to deliver his exposition and the chip splodes killing the poor woman … but not before she is able to tell him some stuff… I think…. I got bored a bit and skipped forward a little bit and they are in Rome, in the Vatican city trying to kidnap some Croatian guy who has bad guy written all over him but typically is some sort of untouchable philanthropist (but infact turns out to be a cross between Damian from the Omen and Emperor Palpatine… who would have guessed huh?) …. And seriously by this point I so wanted to put a brick through Cruises smug banal face I decided it would be cheaper for us to not have to pay for a new tv and turned it off…
My rough guess is that there is lots of running about, a few Mission Impossible tropes pulled out for some novelty value. Cruise gets yet more epic attempts at macho stupidity, there is some issue about untrustworthiness in a secret American organisation a need to go “Lone wolf” and much hilarity ensues much in the same vein as the previous two movies.. with the ending being some sort of platitudinal bumf where Mr Cruises Character is either acknowledged as “The Awesome Knower of all that people SHOULD LISTEN TOO”. Or end up “in charge because he’s obviously right about everything” or some such variation on this.
Please feel free to fill me in if you feel like it but truly… I think unless Mr Ethan … hunt???.... rolled into a corner screaming like a baby and sucking his thumb and becomes totally non-functional meaning the rest of the movie is carried out by Simon Pegg and supporting cast.. I don’t think I really care.
Needless to say I can’t stand this movie.. really.. its poorly paced, the script is terrible the action is okay but moronically stupid. There is no economy of movement, they perform insane stunts just because.. The plans are convoluted and crazy just because… and there is a strong desire to just ride every known trope they can find regardless of whether said trope is actually relevant to the story.
So yes I am affraid my only conclusion regarding variosu good ratings regardign this movie are born out of a comparison to the previous (second) movie, which is also quite bad, but actually to me is a far more watchable movie because its a proper action movie....
Really though do not pay money to watch this movie… you will only regret it…
You know I really wanted to write a review about this movie. In fact I really wanted to watch this movie. It has Simon Pegg in it.. who I adore as an actor and admire as a human being because of his whole attitude to the whole “being and actor ” thing and “working in Hollywood” idea.
My problem is… I watched 30 minutes of this Tom Cruise self indulgent ego trip and had to turn it over to watch something else (which I think turned out to be a couple of episodes of Warehouse 13 but I digress) - which is marginally longer I think that Code named Alexa and Dragonquest (seriously if you want either of these two movies I will give them to you with no quibbling)
Yes.. This is one of those movies that makes me mentally scream in pain and want to hit the screen. Or go over to LA find the people responsible and harangue them for a Full 60 minutes.
The basic premise. Ethan what ever his name is (cruise) has retired from active service and is now a trainer for IMF agents. Living a “normal” life he is about to get hitched to his girlfriend…..apparently one of his protégé’s (I am sure the fact that she’s a pretty leggy blond has no effect on the situation) is stuck/captured/lost/ or something in somewhere vaguely eastern European??? (but it is quite obvious that its infact just a dodgy old warehouse somewhere in LA… ) she’s been disavowed and so Ethan manfully decides to drag the team back together and break all the rules to get her back…
Lots of unnecessary getting the team back together later and Ethan is in the dodgy warehouse squaring up against goon central and rescuing the girl.. er protégé. Cue running shooting, action… then into the escapemobile… aka a huey helicopter and a flight into a wind farm while being chased by an awesome attach helicopter with missiles an stuff… which suffering from extreme stormtrooper syndrome can’t hit the inside of a barn door at ten paces… despite having what I would guess at beign one of the better targeting and attack systems that you tend to get in an attack helicopter… and then of course the pilot has a moment of really extreme insanity and decides to follow the huey through an extremely stupidly insane (and i suspect largely vaguely impossible - I need to check with engineer friends) trick of flying through the rotating blades of a wind turbine…… (What is it with these movies and insanely stupidly unlikely stunts in helicopters????? - and why the hell would the pilot of the following helicopter do that??? What would possibly make him suffer lemming syndrome that badly to make him try to fly between the rotating blades of a wind turbine? Especially when all he has to do is fly up and over said turbine and then out fuly the guy on the other side!!.. really are pilots of attack helicopters really that suicidally insane???).. but..er.. yeah… on the huey though the rescue is having a bad time of it. It turns out that the UBER-BAD-GUY has implanted her with a brain bomb chip thing… after much grimacing of pain and manly words of manliness by Ethan he takes far to long to deliver his exposition and the chip splodes killing the poor woman … but not before she is able to tell him some stuff… I think…. I got bored a bit and skipped forward a little bit and they are in Rome, in the Vatican city trying to kidnap some Croatian guy who has bad guy written all over him but typically is some sort of untouchable philanthropist (but infact turns out to be a cross between Damian from the Omen and Emperor Palpatine… who would have guessed huh?) …. And seriously by this point I so wanted to put a brick through Cruises smug banal face I decided it would be cheaper for us to not have to pay for a new tv and turned it off…
My rough guess is that there is lots of running about, a few Mission Impossible tropes pulled out for some novelty value. Cruise gets yet more epic attempts at macho stupidity, there is some issue about untrustworthiness in a secret American organisation a need to go “Lone wolf” and much hilarity ensues much in the same vein as the previous two movies.. with the ending being some sort of platitudinal bumf where Mr Cruises Character is either acknowledged as “The Awesome Knower of all that people SHOULD LISTEN TOO”. Or end up “in charge because he’s obviously right about everything” or some such variation on this.
Please feel free to fill me in if you feel like it but truly… I think unless Mr Ethan … hunt???.... rolled into a corner screaming like a baby and sucking his thumb and becomes totally non-functional meaning the rest of the movie is carried out by Simon Pegg and supporting cast.. I don’t think I really care.
Needless to say I can’t stand this movie.. really.. its poorly paced, the script is terrible the action is okay but moronically stupid. There is no economy of movement, they perform insane stunts just because.. The plans are convoluted and crazy just because… and there is a strong desire to just ride every known trope they can find regardless of whether said trope is actually relevant to the story.
So yes I am affraid my only conclusion regarding variosu good ratings regardign this movie are born out of a comparison to the previous (second) movie, which is also quite bad, but actually to me is a far more watchable movie because its a proper action movie....
Really though do not pay money to watch this movie… you will only regret it…