2006 · adventure · action · thriller
Mission: Impossible III
Directed by J.J. Abrams2h 6m2006
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.
Our read: Mission: Impossible III (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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“You want emotional Ethan Hunt stakes with Philip Seymour Hoffman's chilling villain.”
Skip it tonight — Abrams lens flare and marriage subplot distract from spy action.
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