Mission: Impossible III (Film)
Saying it's the best of the three, which it easily is, is not exactly high praise. This is the mission impossible film I've been waiting for. While I never caught the original, there was a remade series shown on ABC in the sometime in the last decade. It's this show that I grew very fond of and loved the premise. The first two films missed an important ingredient, teamwork. It's what I loved most about the show. While the film at times feels like a really good Alias episode, again not a bad thing, it does have a really killer villain. The only other films this one comes close to is either the James Bond films or True Lies. The Bourne series tended to be rather low tech. All in all, I'd really enjoyed it and had a blast. If all the summer films are this good, it's goig to be a really good summer.
posted by John Choi @ 7:44 PM
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what do you make of the lower than expected box office results reported for the first weekend of MI 3? the reports state that MI 2 and War of the Worlds both did significantly better and that MI 3 didn't live up to expectations, at least in the financial sense.
do you think cruise's wacky personal behavior (too many examples to list, but i'll go with the "you're a jerk, you know that" clip after he gets sprayed in the face with water is my favorite) is having an affect on the movie going public? is his behavior now a liability to future box office results?
The lower then expected b.o. was not surprising. The previous Mission films opened on Memorial weekend and accounts for a significant portion of the films take. In the end, it's a third film of a franchise with 2 already weak films. It's like the saying, fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice shame on you. People who've seen the first two thought, eh, more of the same.
Though Tommy acting like a loon did not help. I wonder if he was always this way, or did something happen?
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