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Mission: Impossible III (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 219
Fresh: 154 | Rotten: 65

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.

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 16

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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The third entry in Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible film series involves super Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) being forced back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). The agency asks Hunt to save an operative (Keri Russell) he trained after weapons dealer Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) kidnaps her. With the help of his field team -- played by Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, and Maggie Q -- Hunt achieves

PG-13, 2 hr. 5 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Directed By: J.J. Abrams

Written By: Jeffrey Abrams, Roberto Orci

In Theaters: May 5, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Oct 30, 2006

Box Office:$133.4M

Paramount Pictures

...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.

November 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsweek

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David Ansen

Newsweek

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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.

June 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal

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Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

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As idiot movies go, this one is as sub-mental as you might expect.

May 10, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Rex Reed

New York Observer

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My final reaction to Mission: Impossible III is one of bemused tolerance and even mild absorption in all the silliness.

May 10, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

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There are no flourishes to savor. Instead, there are big-deal stunts.

May 9, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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David Edelstein

New York Magazine

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The grand finale? A fistfight, after which somebody gets run over. Listen, if I want to see that kind of action, I don't go to Shanghai. I don't even go to the movies. I go to the South Bronx and stand outside a bar.

May 8, 2006 Comments (3)

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

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More stuff blows up in the first twenty minutes of this one than in the first two movies combined. (Extreme Blu-ray Trilogy)

December 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

The best of the first three for its nonstop action and sometimes pulse-pounding excitement.

December 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

The latest in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible III is high on intrigue, but a bit too obvious in its construction to be as effecting as it tries to be.

April 8, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Had a pop artist handled this, the franchise could have had its On Her Majesty's Secret Service; with machines directing machines, however, it's closer to its Live and Let Die

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

It's by far the most entertaining of the bunch, and it's not much of an accomplishment, but it's a start.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

More boisterous and violent action; teens and up.

July 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

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

July 18, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

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

August 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film

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Anton Bitel

Eye for Film

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

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound

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Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

A two-hour, thrill-a-minute, globe-trotting adventure!

May 20, 2007 Full Review Source: DallasBlack.com

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Kam Williams

DallasBlack.com

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.

January 11, 2007 Full Review Source: AALBC.com

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Kam Williams

AALBC.com

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

December 13, 2006 Full Review Source: Nolan's Pop Culture Review

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Michael A. Smith

Nolan's Pop Culture Review Source: Nolan's Pop Culture Review

the new personal insight into Cruise's character never quite takes off and achieves the level of emotional involvement obviously intended

November 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

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Lighting the fuse for the third time, we have once again become guests in a world where masked identities and high-tech gadgetry is just business as usual. Briskly paced and stuffed with suspense, the two-hour running time is anything but conspicious. At least in comparison to the inferior "MI2", which often prompted a

July 10, 2007

Mike S

Super Reviewer

This is getting better, again the action is very very good, the film looks good and its become a little more adult or serious as time has passed, almost a 'Die Hard' style flick but not a 'Die Hard' beater. Again Mr Cruise likes himself too much with plenty of close ups and himself generally being ultra slick n cool

September 30, 2007

Phil Hubbard

Super Reviewer

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1. Ethan Hunt: I'm gonna die unless you kill me.
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1. Musgrave: This message, let's call it my excellent engagement gift to you, will self-destruct in five seconds.
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1. Theodore Brassel: Mr. Musgrave, please don't interrupt me when I'm asking rhetorical questions.
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