I saw it last night and I now know why they abbreviated this to M:I:3. A single colon could NEVER produce a steaming pile of dung this big. The only redeeming feature was another great performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The acting was atrocious (with the exception of Hoffman).

The plot was made up to glue the action sequences together. (Most embarrasingly forced McGuffin ever!)

The action sequences were laughable at best with the exception of the bridge-scene.

Not a single one-liner was smart, funny or correctly timed and I've seen better dialogue in Uwe Boll movies.

I can't fathom why the press is so impressed by this horrible, horrible picture. It doesn't even work on the brainless-action-movie level. During what was meant to be the most emotional scene in the film, the audience was lauging their collective asses off.

If this movie bombs at the box office, Tom Cruise can kiss his career good-bye.

i've never liked these movies. they're too confusing and the whole pulling the face mask off is always such a cheap move.

Mission Impossible 2 was confusing?

i can't even remember one aspect or scene of MI2, that's how forgettable it was. so maybe that one wasn't confusing i really don't remember.

that's a shame, i'm higher on tom cruise than just about everyone in the world at this point in time.

why?

well, because everyone hates him and i still like him.

Don't you dare turn my "M:I:3 sucks" thread into a Tom Cruise fanboy thread!.

I want to see this. I've heard some good things. I really liked the first one and didn't think the second one was that bad.

Don't say you weren't warned.

I really hope this movie tanks, maybe then Cruise can finally drop off the face of the earth. If we all ignore this man and his movies he will eventually go away.

and maybe jj abrmas will work on what people really like him for, his tv shows instead of letting them slowly degrade.

not gonna happen though. people are gonna go see it because of his recent antics, not in spite of them.

I mean his recent antics aside and this not so great movie which everyone is entitled too. he has some pretty good movies, Im still a fan.

Funniest part in the whole movie, when Ving Rhames is comming outta the sewer and is about to come up through a car, they open the hatch for him and as he's sitting in the manhole Cruse says "What's up?" and Ving responds back so nonchalantly "Nothing, what's up with you?" It had me laughing to hard, I don't really know why either.

MI3 was decent, better then MI2, came nowhere near De Palma's original though. The plot was set up around action sequences but what MI flick doesn't do this? The acting was horrible, with the exception of Hoffman, but he wasn't in it enough. Also they didn't develop him at all. Slightly entertaining but I wouldn't waste my time till it came out on DVD.

looks like it's coming in under $50 million for the first weekend. projections were in the area of $75 million, so this is looking to be a failure of sorts already.

I thought it was entertaining on a visceral level, with some top notch action and truly thrilling moments. It loses steam in the 3rd act and I didn't think the payoff was nearly as good as stuff that already happened (blame the script. It blows its wad in the 70 minutes)

What I really liked was the team aspect of pulling off these missions. The infiltration of the Vatican was cool as hell, and the following set piece on the bridge was fantastic, a mix of the bridge scene in True Lies and the van ambush in Clear and Present Danger, but on steroids.

The film never stops, though, never really lets you catch your breath. I think this is to mask the paper-thin plot and lack of character development. Hoffman's villain is never really given the amount of focus he needs to be a truly memorable bad guy, but he's good in the few scenes he's in.

Bottom line: it's summer entertainment that's not dumb but not brilliant either. Good looking and exciting, though. i still prefer DePalma's style with the 1st one, though.

if phillip seymour hoffman put an explosive charge in tom cruise's head, why doesn't he just kill him when he has the chance? i'm not gonna see the movie so someone fill me in.