Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 218
Fresh: 153 | 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: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 30 | 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
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Cast
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Tom Cruise
Ethan Hunt -
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Owen Davian -
Ving Rhames
Luther Strickell -
Billy Crudup
Musgrave -
Michelle Monaghan
Julia -
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Declan -
Keri Russell
Lindsey Farris -
Maggie Q
Zhen -
Laurence Fishburne
Theodore Brassel -
Simon Pegg
Benji -
Eddie Marsan
Brownway -
Bahar Soomekh
Davian's translator -
Jeff Chase
Davian's bodyguard -
Michael Berry Jr.
Julia's Kidnapper -
Carla Gallo
Beth -
Bellamy Young
Rachael -
Paul Keeley
Ken -
Jane Daly
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Greg Grunberg
Kevin -
Sabra Williams
Annie -
Rose Rollins
Ellie -
Sasha Alexander
Melissa -
Tracy Middendorf
Ashley -
Aaron Paul
Rick -
Kathryn Fiore
Party goer -
Colleen Crozier
Party goer -
Sean O'Bryan
Party goer -
Bruce French
Minister -
Ellen Bry
Lindsey's mother -
Patrick Pankhurst
Lindsey's father -
Tony Guma
Jim -
James Shanklin
Hospital chaplain -
Anne Betancourt
Nurse Sally -
Antonietta De Lorenzo
Roadblock driver -
Andrea Sartirettum
Roadblock driver -
Antonio Del Prete
Vatican video room guar... -
Paolo Bonacelli
Monsignore -
David Waters
IMF officer -
Michael Kehoe
Hosptial employee -
Tim Omundson
IMF agent -
William Francis McGuire
IMF head of security -
Michelle Arthur
Airline worker -
Barney Cheng
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All Critics (221) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (159) | Rotten (67) | DVD (36)
...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.
Top CriticThere 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.
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.
As idiot movies go, this one is as sub-mental as you might expect.
My final reaction to Mission: Impossible III is one of bemused tolerance and even mild absorption in all the silliness.
There are no flourishes to savor. Instead, there are big-deal stunts.
More stuff blows up in the first twenty minutes of this one than in the first two movies combined. (Extreme Blu-ray Trilogy)
The best of the first three for its nonstop action and sometimes pulse-pounding excitement.
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.
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
Abrams' installment into an otherwise mediocre trilogy is entertaining.
More boisterous and violent action; teens and up.
Without an outsize directorial vision it looks even more like sub-007 than the others did.
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
Mr. Abrams, it seems, has chosen to accept his mission. And I'll be darned if he doesn't succeed.
A two-hour, thrill-a-minute, globe-trotting adventure!
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.
Given a story that calls for emotion, Cruise shows the turmoil his character is going through
the new personal insight into Cruise's character never quite takes off and achieves the level of emotional involvement obviously intended
Audience Reviews for Mission: Impossible III
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- Ethan Hunt: I'm gonna die unless you kill me.
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- Musgrave: This message, let's call it my excellent engagement gift to you, will self-destruct in five seconds.
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- Theodore Brassel: Mr. Musgrave, please don't interrupt me when I'm asking rhetorical questions.
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