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OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh |
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| "The sad truth is that Ethan will always be better at saving the world than saving his marriage and fans of the first two films are likely to find the agent's journey of the heart an unwelcome distraction" |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
C- | "While [Abrams'] projects have the dignity of being the few of a handful of watchable shows on network television, his feature film directorial debut is as dizzying and annoying as the most asinine of Michael Bay projects." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
6/10 | "Gives the uncomfortable feeling of stumbling upon someone flexing in front of the mirror while listening to 'Eye of the Tiger' on full volume, but we get our money's worth." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
A | "This is a divine, rollicking, fingernail-chewing action thriller, and kicks off the abnormally diverse summer 2006 moviegoing season with a deafening roar." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
B+ | ""Mission Impossible: III" is a perfect summer blockbuster movie." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "This would be the new Ethan Hunt, handsome and harsh and also vulnerable. The refurbishing comes courtesy of the Cruise-selected J.J. Abrams." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
3/5 | "Tom Cruise has moved the franchise into much smarter and more emotionally involving territory. If only he had moved a little bit farther in that direction." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
5/5 | "Not only is Mission: Impossible III better than its predecessors, but it could very well hold up as the best action picture to come along in at least ten years." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A | "Yes, the plot lacks realism. Yes, Cruise is unrelenting as ever he was. Yes, the action never stops. Which simply means 'Mission: Impossible III' is 2006's first great popcorn flick." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3/4 | "Hoffman's icy villain -- and Cruise's smoldering vulnerability -- make this the most entertaining Mission' to date!" |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
C | "It might have enough flash to please those who crave such entertainment films and don't mind if
the story is nonsensical." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "Audiences searching for nothing more than popcorn entertainment will get their money's worth." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3/5 | "Un film de acción que no da respiro, no tiene mayores pretensiones que la de entretener, y cumple con todo lo que promete. El mejor de la serie, sin duda." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B | "You won't believe a minute of it, but you'll certainly smile at the infectious high-spirited energy of it all." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3/4 | "It has sneaking, chases, masks, a love story, a MacGuffin, role reversals, Ethan Hunt as fugitive, a plot from the original, the gun-totin' mentality of the second and comes up somewhere in-between the first two." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
3/4 | "Placer culposo." |
| Doncinema.com |
| Flavio J. Arosemena |
3/4 | "...exhilarating and explosive. The verdict is swift and crafty: the adrenaline rush that is M:I:3 is convincingly enjoyable--MISSION accomplished." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
C+ | "As a summer time-waster that provides an empty adrenaline rush, M:I 3 will do. But it doesn't represent an advance on the first installments, and it does go on." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
2/5 | "A dark film filled with improbable stunts and unbelievable plot developments that uses women as props and objects just to keep the mayhem and the momentum going full tilt." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
2.5/4 | "Mission: Impossible III provides lots of action, but too little excitement." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
2.5/5 | "When you try to bring everything together, it's hard to tell what Malick is trying to get at. He eschews the typical conventions of the historical epic, favoring instead an elliptical, jumpy, and sometimes distanced view of the action." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "This latest instalment delivers on everything one would expect from a Mission Impossible movie . . ." |
| Sci-Fi Movie Page |
| James O'Ehley |
7/10 | "When Mission: Impossible III is succeeding on any level, I'd like to give credit to its director, J.J. Abrams." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
6/10 | "Delivers some rousing sequences that are sure to delight and enthrall audiences looking for some mindless, high-octane, escapist entertainment." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
7/10 | "When all was said and done two hours later, I had enjoyed myself..." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
4/5 | "Exciting, kinetic and intelligent, J.J. Abrams theatrical debut is as good as anything he's produced on television. And that's saying something for the man who brought us Alias and Lost." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
7/10 | "Aside from what one can only assume is a much larger budget, merely a three-episode marathon of Alias." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
| "This is boy's adventure, writ large, with nothing that can be imagined that cannot be done, and no questions asked." |
| In the Dark |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
3/4 | "La cinta se siente fresca y actual, lo que le da nueva vida a una franquicia que parecía haberse agotado con tan sólo dos entregas." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
4/5 | "click to read full review [Greek]" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
4/5 | "." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/5 | "Despite my really not wanting to see it, I enjoyed the heck out of Abram's contribution to the franchise. And for the first time, it's really engaging!" |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/4.0 | "... J.J. Abrams' writing and direction not only delivers the best of the IMF series but practically resets the potential longevity of the franchise back to 'start.'" |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
4/5 | "This may be Tom Cruise's movie, but the real star is J.J. Abrams from start to finish. Our favorite nutcase Scientologist neither harmed nor helped the movie along." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
3/4 | "Suffers from being neither as character-driven nor as mindlessly badass as it could have been." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "The third time's the charm..." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3.5/5 | "Wildly uneven but still always entertaining." |
| Monsters At Play |
| Lawrence P. Raffel |
3/4 | "The end result is the very definition of a summer movie: breezy, undemanding and a carefully balanced blend of the familiar and the not-quite-what-you-expected." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
B- | "With Mission: Impossible III [Abrams] has essentially designed the most expensive episode of Alias ever made." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
| "Look, I realize that it can be hard to distinguish from dry snark, but I swear to god I am being 100 percent totally and sincerely sincere when I implore you to feel Tom's pain. Maybe." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/4 | "You're not going to get a lot of intelligence, or a lot of logic, or a lot of mental stimulation. But if it's thrills you're looking for, M:I 3 delivers." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B- | "Interfering with what would otherwise suffice as popcorn pleasures, a jolt of "Law and Order"-style ripped-from-the-headlines electricity throws the movie fatally off-kilter.
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| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
2.5/4 | "Shallow to its core and as propulsive as a runaway locomotive, it's the most blatantly summer movie-ish of the Mission Impossibles." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "Abrams é hábil ao permitir que o espectador acompanhe com clareza o que está ocorrendo na tela, imprimindo velocidade aos acontecimentos sem que, com isso, sacrifique nossa compreensão." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
2.5/5 | "Lacking Bond's refinement and good humor or the comparable realism of the Bourne Identity franchise, M:I 3 ends up as just another forgettable action movie." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4/5 | "Technically the film looks a bit like a TV movie ... but that's precisely the point." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
C+ | "While there's nothing wrong with M:I III... I found myself wondering if we really needed to bother getting off the couch for it." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "Let your mind go and the popcorn will follow." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
4/5 | "It's not deep or particularly brilliant, but it moves like a bullet, and it's the very best of the series so far." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
4/5 | "Relentless ... a popcorn thriller that keeps pouring it on," |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Sean O'Connell |
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OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh |
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