Mission Impossible - III
If you are going in with the expectation that it's going to be like the other 2 MI movies then I would say - please don't go. The only similarity that this movie bears with it's counterparts in the sequel is the fact that Ethan Hunt is still capable of jumping off tall buildings and shooting a million rounds of ammo, just that, he doesn't want to do it unless there is a compelling emotional/centimental reson a.k.a. rescuing his wife from the bad guy by delivering the ransom. Unlike his image in the previous movie as a super spy capable of getting his girl, he is gagging for his wife's life and begging the bad guy not to kill her. Not too cool for a super spy eh!? One more noticeable point is Ethan Hunt's change of taste in women. He used to like all those super sexy, hard to get and action loving babes driving around in super cars but, all of a sudden he gets married to this doctor in a chapel within the hospital and no prizes for guessing where the first night (after marriage) takes place - the hospital supply room. Gosh! this fellow doesn't even share half the chemistry he had with the girl from MI-II and he is married to her. Maybe the film was just trying to highlight the flip side of marriages - no chemistry, timely sex and using your spy education to lip read you wife's girls only chat in the kitchen. Jeez! I could have handled Ethan Hunt as a balding and dying old man but, the lip reading thing was just too much. Unlike the rest of the movies the IMF message delivery doesn't happen to him in any impressive manner. Yes! they have managed to domesticate even that. Ethan Hunt gets a call and runs to the super market out of a party on the pretext to get some ice and meets up with his ex-boss (no bosses in other movies) who delivers him a shitty looking kodak camera which has the message after exchanging all the plesantries of the world. The crap doesn't stop there. Unlike in the previous 2 movies this movie isn't about the article that this chap is trying to retrieve. No one even knows what the hell it is. May be they were just trying to create some mysticism by not telling you what the hell it is. A description like a virus which would end all life on earth or a nuclear device which would evaporate earth would have sounded cool but, nope it is just called the Rabbit's foot. Rabbit's foot, my foot. But, the actual part of the movie which made me feel stupid for paying to watch the movie was the bollywood ending wherein the fellow is being tormented by an explosive brain implant while his wife is forced to save him by electrocuting him and then bringing him back with a CPR while trying to shoot the bad guys. Hmm! multi tasking and women. Oh by the ways the time lag between his electrocution and the CPR is the time taken by the novice wife who is used to nothing but bandaids and kitchen utensils to shoot down 2 bad guys with mighty guns. Finally, after she is done with all the tasks in the world she manages to recover him. Hmm! this is why they got him married to a doctor I guess. The action is not even half as explosive as MI-II. John Woo is wild and unmatchable ain't he? Anyways everyone is entitled to an opinion and I personally think the movie is a load of bollocks.

/PhaKuDi