Tom Cruise Is Jennifer Garner...
Well, I just saw Mission Impossible: III. I'm not really going to bother writing a review, other than to say that if you want to see stuff getting blown up, framed within a script that isn't as egregiously insulting to the intelligence as the Miami Vice remake looks like it will be, than this is the movie for you.
I do have a few observations, though:
There are two major action set pieces that bothered me. One is in Berlin, the other in Shanghai. Neither of these are cities in which the locals would exactly take in stride major gun battles erupting on their streets. Admittedly, the Berlin sequence is on the outskirts of town, in an abandoned factory, but, still, someone would notice. The Shanghai sequence involves a gun battle and car chase right in the middle of their downtown. Why wasn't there a single police car? The Chinese has plenty of police. If they had managed to even include the sound of a siren somewhere in the surround mix, my suspension of disbelief would have remained undisturbed. But, no, not a single police vehicle in evidence.
It's nice to see that Laurence Fishburne is no longer channeling William Shatner.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman fucking rocks. He owned the screen in all of his scenes...especially when kicking Cruise's ass all over the place.
I think it was a mistake for J. J. Abrams to make this his first motion picture. As respectable a film as it was, it was still an Alias episode with a different cast.
Anyway, that's all for now. I'll write about The Da Vinci Code next week, and probably some other shit between now and than.
I do have a few observations, though:
There are two major action set pieces that bothered me. One is in Berlin, the other in Shanghai. Neither of these are cities in which the locals would exactly take in stride major gun battles erupting on their streets. Admittedly, the Berlin sequence is on the outskirts of town, in an abandoned factory, but, still, someone would notice. The Shanghai sequence involves a gun battle and car chase right in the middle of their downtown. Why wasn't there a single police car? The Chinese has plenty of police. If they had managed to even include the sound of a siren somewhere in the surround mix, my suspension of disbelief would have remained undisturbed. But, no, not a single police vehicle in evidence.
It's nice to see that Laurence Fishburne is no longer channeling William Shatner.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman fucking rocks. He owned the screen in all of his scenes...especially when kicking Cruise's ass all over the place.
I think it was a mistake for J. J. Abrams to make this his first motion picture. As respectable a film as it was, it was still an Alias episode with a different cast.
Anyway, that's all for now. I'll write about The Da Vinci Code next week, and probably some other shit between now and than.
posted by Ralph Nadir at 4:09 PM
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