MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3: Trek Wars The Making

Yes. In Hollywood, as in all lands of white water, black ink is quite dry. Such is life with directors! Actors know this. Private citizens? Why sort of. Directors comes with an s. Just like Mission Impossible 3, which supposedly was directed by a young man who runs Television since the Millenium turned during the Survivor series, the invigorated Star Trek film series and, now, Disney's Star Wars.

No. Wait. George Lucus? Not included! Bill Gates? (He's hard to escape) {There is a Solo movie.} [Anyway, as you can see... the writer of Top Gun... Tom Cruise... is now directing.]

 Which is probably why Mission Impossible 3 is a masterpiece. Gone is John H or No H Wu's slow motion and 90s invasive close ups for the Oil revolution of beepers, mobile phones that shall be called cells and P.R., P.R., P.R.! Hello, the talent, the plot the and evil, sinister practice of post-911 geo-political powerplays.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is evil!

Tom Cruise? Well, basically, but he makes a great case for why most of the time it pays to be.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers - the British John Travolata - is in this movieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Kerri Russel the brains? Kerri Russel is the brains!

Ving Rhames? Is in this movie which is all about team-work, timing and, something that really doesn't happen anymore in Main Stream Boxoffice: a rigorously performed script about timing, timing and even more timing until it becomes so uncomfortable that you, and you alone the obvious writer and director of this master-piece of Tom Cruise-approved cinema suggest that you are, like, living in a movie - like.

So Larry Fishburne is the picture. The guy behind the guy behind the guy? Yeah, well, that might also be Billy Crudup! Bam!

Is the hokiness gone from this series that frankly gets to be put it anywhere, because Americans know better than anybody when serious stuff gets corny and besides the point and that, by and large, most Shadenfreude practitioners are awkward - somewhere - and that unfortunately rubs off.

So this is a good review. There are only a few on this blog so shoot me!

Are all Tom Cruise movies truly great? (Yes)

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