Originally Posted by PopSecret.com

In the 3rd installment of the TV show-turned-movie franchise, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) comes out of his comfy, safe job of training agents and goes back into the field to save an agent of importance (Keri Russell). A crack team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Maggie Q) assists him to save the agent and thwart the plans of the lethally sadistic Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Davian is a black-market dealer who sells high-end devices of destruction to terrorists. Supervisor Brassel (Lawrence Fishburne) has a problem with this operation and causes trouble for Hunt and his new boss, John Musgrave (Billy Crudup). Following the plot of M:I 1, Hunt has to uncover a mole working inside the operation before they go after his new wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Can Ethan save her and find the White Rabbit (and even drink from a bottle to go on a little mind trip) for Davian before he kills her or the world?

MI: III is directed by J.J. Abrams, the creator of ?Lost? and ?Alias,? so the guy has some great credentials and talent. Enough credentials to reportedly give him the reigns to the most expensively budgeted movie by a debut film director - and it shows. There are stunts and action scenes galore in this film. Most of them are pretty awesome, even if they are a bit goofy at times. There?s even one scene that?s straight out of a ?Road Runner? cartoon.

That being said, Abrams and his co-writers, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, who have a lot of credits between them for shows such as ?Xena,? ?Hercules? and ?Jack Of All Trades,? have written some very predictable material that has Cruise and Monaghan crying, or at least tearing up enough that it makes Michael Landon look like an amateur. Not that there?s anything wrong with showing some tender emotions in an action film, but this was a little too much. Fortunately the rest of the huge cast don?t shed tears, just some blood and sweat.

If you take your brain out at the door, then you?ll enjoy the heck out of MI:3. Otherwise, you?ll realize how ridiculous some of the actions and motives of the characters are. Once you do that you?ll start doubting every character and everything gets ruined. For action fans, Mission: Impossible III is going to be the first blockbuster out of the gate this summer.