You won’t find any JJ Abrams hatred here. In the years following its release M:T:III He’s become one of the most divisive authors, but I’m old enough to remember when it was interesting to be the man who gave us Alias He was making a big-budget spy thriller as his directorial debut. However, here lies the problem. Especially compared to every film that came after it – but also to the two that came before it –M:T:III It rarely rises above feeling like a really good episode of television.
The film actually has a lot of the idiosyncrasies of the JJ he field-tested Alias and lost The first: murderer In media resolution The opening, juxtaposing high-level espionage with basic domestic life, is a getaway where someone It needs a dose of adrenaline To escape, that Emotional CPR scene It turns into just crying on someone’s chest, Michael Giacchino, etc. But everything around him is a little ashamed of being flat. JJ has also been known to be fascinated by the process, taking the drama out of getting from point A to point B, which doesn’t translate well here at all – when I actually saw it, I didn’t think I needed to see how Ethan and the gang make face masks. And one from the movie Largest working groups It just involves Ethan running back and forth across the bridge to get a bigger gun and jumping over a large hole. It’s easily the weakest and steepest action sequence in all seven films.
Yes, Philip Seymour Hoffman somehow manages to deliver cold-blooded lines as if he’s just deciding to order lunch in one of the most inspired choices a film of this genre has ever seen. He’s also in four or five scenes. The rest of the supporting cast around Tom Cruise – with the exception of the always clutch Ving Rhames and the equally compelling lead of Simon Pegg’s Benji – is much less engaging, including Jonathan Rees-meh-erz and the great Laurence Fishburne who is wasted in the role of a hackneyed boss. (God bless Maggie Q for giving more than the script really asks of her.)
And with all due respect to Michelle Monaghan, once Ethan’s domesticated trauma wears off, the relationship between him and his fiancée Julia isn’t very convincing. She’s just there to be a girl, which is underscored by a very subtle movement in the script that makes Hoffman’s Owen Davian immediately ask whether Ethan has a significant other as he scrolls through his list of threats. It was a relief to see Marriage return right away in the next installment, and it was a pleasant surprise when she showed up again He falls In fact it turns out to be quite economical and durable. And although there is, at times, genius in the plot that doesn’t go too far, the story is there M:T:III Hilariously delicate. JJ’s right: It doesn’t really matter what the rabbit’s foot is, but go back and watch the big scene that tasks Pegg with giving it some weight beyond being a blatant MacGuffin and try not to laugh.
But it looks like the rabbit’s foot will appear again Final calculationas one of many callbacks in the new trailer (Welcome back, Rolf Saxon as William Donlow, the poor man who was banished to Alaska by Ethan and company all the way back in De Palma’s original film.) It’s disgusting that Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie I found a way to weave a thread into what may be Cruise’s final outing that spans the entire series. But, personally, I’d be more excited for Thandie Newton to show up instead.
