Mission: Impossible III
2006
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Director: J.J. Abrams
Cast: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne, Simon Pegg
Ethan Hunt hopes to settle down with the woman he loves, but he is drawn back into field work to track down a plot device known as Rabbit's Foot and to capture a ruthless arms dealer. Anything looks good after M:i-2, the weakest release in the series, but J.J. Abrams' feature debut is an entertaining if forgettable action movie. The script includes the usual twists and double-crosses between the unspectacular action set pieces. This franchise needs to reinvent itself, and Brad Bird's follow-up Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol does just that.
