May 08, 2006

Mission Impossible III

What I hate most: How much mileage can you get out of the mask trick and voice mod? Maybe in parts one and two, it's forgivable, But, c'mon...it's tiring.
But perhaps as a consolation, we get shown how the mask is created and the voice replicated. Making it somewhat believable. Somewhat.

What I liked:
(1) The progression of enemy intelligence and how our heroes adapted to it. We've seen the MI team infiltrate a building, coming from the air, via chopper, via something that will get them on the roof...but this time the roof is guarded by armed men---like finally, the baddies have learned their lesson that the roof needs to be secure. How do you get to the roof and thru? Well...very good writing here. The whole sequence focused more on planning and ingenuity. How Hunt developed the plan and proceeded to swing and sling himself from a neighboring tower to the target. Never had to use an easy-to-spot chopper, which the team couldn't get anyway in such a short notice on foreign land. And then intentionally never showing what happens in the building, thus preserving our appreciation of the brilliant plan, even for a moment longer, until Hunt dives out from up high with the objective in hand and into the next action segment.
(2) And Maggie Q.

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