Mission: Impossible III

qaswedfrt's rating: 8/10
Starring: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne, Billy Crudup (and Maggie Q)
Running Time: 126 minutes

Poof! IMF agent Ether Hunt is out for another mission! This mission came out of nowhere, and you might feel cheated. We were not revealed what they thing they're after do.

And that's kinda lame... Basically, Hunt went to the steal that thing, called the Rabbit Foot, to save his (just wedded) wife's live.

I bet the scriptwriter was just lazy about Rabbit Foot. It's like writing a movie about a mission but not having a thing that is actually worth the mission. (It's hard to say. I'm actually stuck at this sentence for nearly half an hour.)

It could had been called something more impressive like MC135 or something along that line; codes that we don't understand seems much professional and are so much better than Rabbit Foot.

Anyway, it's more of a mission to save his wife instead of saving the world. Not a great idea.

But actually the movie is better than what I've expected it to be!

Tom Cruise is as good as ever. Credits to him. He's also the producer by the way. There was constant action. This is truely an action-packed movie. Non-stop. Well, there's a few pauses for you to catch your breathe cause it's really nerve-breaking. Like, I could still feel my chest pumping after watching all the credits and walked for another two minutes.

But anyway, there's one or two touching sences. With the right soundtrack and motion effects, it was really tear-tearing. I just made that word up, something like nerve-breaking. =x

If you're into photography, there's two scenes that I'm impressed too. Not that I'm a guru in photography or what, but it's just good to me. Long one-shot scence is always good to me. It shows how good the camera-men are. One was when Hunt and his black mate was at the top of a Shanghai building, and the other one was when Hunt was running like mad to try to find the Rabbit Foot, yes, the Rabbit Foot. How anti-climax can that name be~

And this movie really live up to the names of Hollywood Motion Pictures. The mission crossed four countries, USA, Italy(it's actually the Vatican city), Germany(Berlin) and China (Shanghai). And of course as expected, Shanghai was the worse looking city of all. Obviously we chinese know that Shanghai is very western-influenced. But the director has his reason in choosing the more village-side of Shanghai. Maybe it was to say that the villian wanted low-key hideout, or maybe he just can't get any permit to film the movie in some modern buildings. Anyway, the impression that China is still way under-developed is there, even with the Shanghai tower.

Also, chinese are are being filmed as stupid. I have to admit mandrain sounds funny after almost 90min of English with US-accent. But still, if that wasn't the message they're trying to convey, surely there are ways to film the Shanghai part differently.

Having said all these, the movie had a giant twist at the end! That's all I'm going to say so that there's still reason for you to watch it...

But again... haha... typical Hollywood Movie. Some illogical things can pop up out of nowhere. And the good guys... will... ya... and the villians... you know the ending. But we can see those traditional shooting scenes taking a change. Heros can be shot too, but villians, if not the biggest one, are still an easy target.

My predictions? This movie might be amongst the best nominees for action-movie, simply because it's very hollywood and it might make those US rednecks judges happy by having chinese being filmed as idiots. I'm contridicting myself, it's still a nice movie, when you consider it an action, Hollywood movie of course. Maybe I've just focused too much on the bads rather than the goods so that this good movie won't turn out to be too good for my friends who haven't watch it. Lolz. Maybe I'm just human, bad things have a deeper impression rather than the good ones.