Mission: Impossible 3
#15 in my 2007 movie challenge was MI3. In my defense, this was my husband’s pick. I was in the mood for an entertaining action movie. This couldn’t even fit that generous bill, though Cruise is strangely more believable as Ethan Hunt than he is in real life married to Katie Holmes. Hunt must rescue two damsels in distress, a colleague and later his fiancee. Phillip Seymour Hoffman does nothing special with the role of villain. Midway through this movie I turned on my computer so I could at least get some work done. When the twist at the end came, I didn’t care, and I was very annoyed at the plot device of getting the man emotionally involved by putting “his” women in danger. Woven into the movie were homages to roles from Cruise’s career. This felt gimmicky and annoying. Overall, this movie by J.J. Abrams, the creator of shows Alias and Lost, felt like an overlong, merely OK, TV episode, not a blockbuster action film.