Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Anne Betancourt, Bruce French, Jane Daly, Laurence Fishburne, Paolo Bonacelli
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Cinematographer: Joerg Widmer
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Best of the three so far
Summary: 4 Stars

Villains are what make the different between a passable action move and a good action movie. Case in point: Quantum of Solace which had one of the lamest villains in recent memory. In the case of MI3 we have one of America's best actors who expanded his range even further with this role. Anyone who was seen him in Boogey Nights, Storytelling and Magnolia knows that this guy can act, but even in a Tom Cruise pic, he OWNS this role and practically owns the movie.

Anyway, Phillip Seymore Hoffman is awesome and elevates this movie above the previous two that had shaky plots and/or lame direction. The direction in MI3 isn't stellar, but the production looks a lot slicker. Decent acting by all, but again, the villain makes this movie and he's a real unlikable guy who's as cool as a cucumber no matter what's going on around him.

DVD Review: Best MI Yet
Summary: 5 Stars

I have this movie in both Blu Ray and HDDVD, that is how good it is. It is truly a beauty on my 47" HDTV. It shines in every aspect. Tom cruise and Hoffman and incredible as well. A+

DVD Review: Much better than expected
Summary: 3 Stars

I thought it would be a stinker. I have never seen any of J.J. Abrams's work (I don't watch TV), so I had no idea that this one would be good. I was very hopeful about de Palma's original, and I was a bit let down by it. Then came John Woo's version, and it was basically a stinker. So I was not expecting anything great from M:I:III, and in fact, I didn't even want to put it in.

Yeah, Tom Cruise really wanted to do it, so he acted as producer and made the whole thing come together as a way to revive his troubled career. Can't be good, right?

Well, it is pretty good. All of the acting is decent, although some of the lines are a bit corny. The ending is a bit contrived (and you can see it from a mile away), but the action is good, and the film does some interesting things, like not allowing us to see some of the action. We see other characters talk about what is happening, but we don't see one primary bit of action, and the movie is better for the hints and suppositions.

One thing that annoyed me is the way there's always a mole in the M:I franchise, but it's just par for the course, I guess.

If you're looking for a good action film, this one delivers.

DVD Review: Ethan in love
Summary: 5 Stars

Great movie, but if you watch it in this blu ray format... other formats can may you forget the movie at the middle of the action...
More heart in this and more realistic than the others.

DVD Review: The fun, the adventure, the creativity, never ease up...
Summary: 3 Stars

In this third film of the series, Ethan Hunt has retired from the field, and is training new agents.... His sweetheart Julia (Michelle Monaghan) thinks he works for the Department of Transportation...

When one of his pupils is kidnapped by a sadistic arms dealer Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Hunt decides to assemble his old team to retrieve her, putting in mortal danger his new love...

J.J. Abrams--in his first feature film--shot "Mission: Impossible III" with a sense of timing and suspense... We're dealing with full-flash blanks, glass breaking, explosions... And we see Hunt, in a quite interesting shot, running up a wall to enter the Vatican... Also, in the bridge sequence, he runs away from a rocket hit on one of the vehicles... It's cool because the way he's running, the look on his face, before, during and after that impact could only have been done only by an actor as good as him... In China, in an old fishing village, we see him jumping off tile rooftops, with incredible grace, precision, coordination and footwork... Then, with Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell) they jump out of a building on a cable landing on a truck...

The special effects, and visual effects are great... They all work together... The Shanghai street chase with Tom leaning out of the car at some insanely dangerous angle to shoot a gun under a truck; Also Tom, in a high-speed boat, on the Tiber River in Rome, Italy; the blowing of a nice spectacular sports car; and, of course, the helicopter chase sequence where, in pursuit, the bad-guy helicopter emerges out of a fireball...

Also, in a fantastic shot, in Shanghai, China, when the camera comes in and then goes around Tom as he's standing on top of a Shanghai roof... The camera comes over his shoulder and look down at the ground, so we'll see Tom on the top of the Shanghai building, hundreds feet in the air, and just to show and set up the jeopardy of what he's about to accomplish...

Well, I loved the director's work... He's so detail-oriented...The fun, the adventure, the creativity, never eased up...

And, please, don't miss Colleen Atwood, entering the Vatican, with a head-turner red dress...

Description of Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

Tom Cruise returns as Special Agent Ethan Hunt, who faces the mission of his life in "Mission: Impossible III." Director J. J. Abrams ("Lost"," "Alias") brings his unique blend of action and drama to the billion-dollar franchise.

At the time of its release, Mission: Impossible III's box office was plagued by the publicity backlash against couch-jumping star Tom Cruise. It's too bad, because this third installment of the spy thriller franchise deserved a better reception than it got. First-time feature director J.J. Abrams (bigwig TV director/producer of Lost, Alias, & Felicity) proves more than able-bodied in creating a Mission: Impossible that's leaner and less over-stylized than John Woo's sequel and less confusing than Brian De Palma's original. Plot is still a throwaway here (Cruise's Ethan Hunt rescues his kidnapped former trainee and works to steal a device that... well, we don't really know what it does, but it's something about mass destruction that costs $850 million), but the action sequences, particularly one where Ethan faces down a helicopter on a bridge and gets flung hard against the side of a car, are particularly impressive since Cruise, at 44, is still doing most of his own stunts and shows no hint of the weathered look that's struck his action-star peers. (Though no Mission: Impossible stunt will ever be quite as simultaneously nail-biting and funny as the first film's wire-dangling break-in of CIA headquarters.)

Mission: Impossible III boasts a pedigreed cast, particularly Oscar? winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) as baddie arms dealer Owen Davian. Hoffman plays Owen all teeth-clenched and cool, especially when threatening to kill Ethan in front of his lovely new wife (Michelle Monaghan) who has no idea of his spy life. But in his first action-film lead role, Hoffman's almost too calm and collected to really make a memorable villain, especially when the rest of the cast--Ving Rhames (the only other cast member to return for all three films), Asian film star Maggie Q, and an underused Jonathan Rhys-Meyers--are a highlight as Ethan's IMF team. Mission: Impossible is still fun popcorn spy fare, and if Cruise chooses to end the franchise here, at least he goes out on a high note. --Ellen A. Kim

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Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

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DVD Reviews of Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Best of the three so farSummary: 4 Stars

DVD Review: Best MI YetSummary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: Much better than expectedSummary: 3 Stars

DVD Review: Ethan in loveSummary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: The fun, the adventure, the creativity, never ease up...Summary: 3 Stars

Description of Mission Impossible III [Blu-ray]

General DVDs

DVD Review: Best of the three so far
Summary: 4 Stars

DVD Review: Best MI Yet
Summary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: Much better than expected
Summary: 3 Stars

DVD Review: Ethan in love
Summary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: The fun, the adventure, the creativity, never ease up...
Summary: 3 Stars