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Mission: ImpossibleThis DePalma film is a big-screen remake of a prior American television show, modernized and updated with all of the eye-popping special effects that a Hollywood mega-budget can buy. The show's Jim Phelps is the leader of the 'Impossible Missions Force.' In this 'episode,' Ethan Hunt is the point man for an IMF mission to catch a spy in the act of stealing information about the 'covers' of many other covert operatives. In the tradition of the TV show, the viewer is led down many plot twists, turns, and reversals, while the IMF members employ the latest in technology, disguises, and spy gadgetry to accomplish their mission.Mission: Impossible IIIMF agent Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy the supply of a genetically created disease called 'Chimera'. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure called 'Bellerophon' and now need 'Chimera' to complete their grand plan of infecting the whole world. In order to infiltrate and locate the terrorist group he relies on the help of an international thief Nyah of whom he quickly develops a love interest. Time is not only running out for Agent Hunt to find and destroy 'Chimera' before the terrorists get their hands on it, but he must also find 'Bellerophon' so as to save his love interest who has already become infected by the disease from a terrible and rapid death.Mission: Impossible IIISuper-spy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from active duty to trains new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell (Ving Rhames), transportation expert Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), and background operative Zhen (Maggie Q), to rescue one of his very own trainees, Lindsey (Keri Russell) who was kidnapped while on a surveillance detail of Davian. It soon becomes evident that Davian is well-protected, well-connected, and downright malicious, forcing Hunt to extend his journey back into the field in order to rescue his wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan), and uncover IMF double agents in the process.Format: HD DVD
"[1] Exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable." Desson Thomson, Washington Post
"[2] Every car chase, every plane crash, every potential drop off a cliff is a masterpiece of grace and surprise." Ella Taylor, LA Weekly
"[1] Enormous fun." Mark Salisbury, Empire
"[3] A gratifyingly clever, booby-trapped thriller..." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"[3] ...an expertly engineered popcorn movie..." Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"[2] ...terrific energy, alternating riveting action sequences with intimate material..." Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian
Editor's Note
This collection presents all three blockbuster MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE films based on the 1960s television series of the same name: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (2000), and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (2006). See individual titles for details.
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 10/30/2006 |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 11993 | | UPC: 00097361199344 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2001) | | | Image Award, Ving Rhames, [2] Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | | | Image Award, Thandie Newton, [2] Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | |
Winner (2001) | | | MTV Award, Mission: Impossible II, [2] Best Action Sequence | | | MTV Award, Tom Cruise, [2] Best Male Performance | |
Nominee (1997) | | | MTV Award, Mission: Impossible, [1] Best Action Sequence |
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| | Professional Reviews | ReelViews 7 of 10
[3] Mission: Impossible III provides lots of action, but too little excitement. It generates lots of pyrotechnics, but too little heat. And it offers lots of Tom Cruise, but too little Ethan Hunt. In short, if you're yearning for a flashy, leave-your-brain-at-the-door summer movie that never does anything interesting or challenging, Mission: Impossible III has what you're looking for. It's loud, raucous, frenetic, and blows things up real good. But it's testosterone without adrenaline, danger without suspense. Maybe it's foolish to be disappointed by a pure popcorn movie, but as I walked out of this film, I felt it had failed in its mission of pure entertainment. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
[1] I'm not sure I could pass a test on the plot of "Mission:Impossible." My consolation is that the screenwriters probably couldn't, either. The story is a nearly impenetrable labyrinth of post-Cold War double-dealing, but the details hardly matter; it's all a set-up for sensational chase sequences and a delicate computer theft operation, intercut with that most reliable of spy movie standbys, the midnight rendezvous under a street lamp in a chilly foreign capital...The bottom line on a film like this is, Tom Cruise looks cool and holds our attention while doing neat things that we don't quite understand -- doing them so quickly and with so much style that we put our questions on hold, and go with the flow. - Roger Ebert
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