Mission Impossible 3

Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in the third installment of the Mission Impossible series. Directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias) MI:3 kicks off the summer with a bang.
This time around, Cruise is retired as a field agent and living in the suburbs planning to live out the American dream. He gets sucked back into fieldwork and assembles his team and the rest is action movie history. While the movie versions bear little if any resemblance to the T.V. series, they are exciting action films that make for good summer entertainment.
The addition of J.J. Abrams to the series is evident from the beginning and remains so throughout the film. The pacing, storyline and character development is exactly like an “Alias” episode. The movie starts with Cruise in a harrowing situation and the rest of the movie brings us up to that point, just like on “Alias”. Even one of Cruise’s supporting cast is an “Alias” rip-off, not in a bad way just an evident way.
It is worth mentioning that Phillip Seymour Hoffman is absolutely chilling as the evil villain. Hard to believe this is the same person that played Truman Capote so well. If they gave out Oscars to action movies he would have one for this role. MI:3 works, see it on the big screen.