Mission Impossible 3
May 12th, 2006
light spoiler post!
i thought this show was going to suck because i heard a few bad reviews on it, but it was a pleasant surprise to find that no, Mission Impossible 3 did not suck!
i think it was Dave who said that in almost all of Tom Cruise’s flicks, he does this thing where he runs at like 999999 km/h with his eyes popping and his neck bulging. hahaha. MI3 is no exception. Tom Cruise does in fact do the 999999 km/h thing that he does so very well. a few times, actually. lucky us!
even though i think Cruise is one weird Scientology dude who shouldnt make jokes about eating his wife’s firstborn’s placenta, i actually quite like his movies :) i enjoyed watching Eyes Wide Shut, Minority Report and War of the Worlds - and MI3 didnt disappoint either. it was full of ‘what the HELL’ moments, which i totally love, and i was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
two thirds of Tom Cruise’s posse made me a very happy girl - cos i totally dig Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Maggie Q is so super hot. i’m quite sad that she didnt have much screentime save for that stupid lame conversation about her lost cat :( oh well, next time, Maggie Q. hopefully by then you’ll be able to speak better Cantonese. the other 1/3 of the posse, the black guy whose name i do not know because i have never seen him onscreen prior to MI3, was a riot. he’s no match for Laurence Fishburne, of course, but i still really liked the way he took care of his lines!
hmm what else. okay i think they should have picked a better guy for Musgrave. this one didnt do too good a job. Phillip Seymour Hoffman completely overshadowed him. but maybe that was the point. my only other gripe is that the two main villians were too easily disposed off. come on, gimme a better climax!
i liked the plot. very much. but i like Minority Report more. besides that, cinematography was excellent and really delivered the scenes with a big bang. screenplay was a bit whatever. Maggie Q’s red dress is weird.
i’m sleepy so i have nothing else to say.
oh wait, i do.
3 Reasons Why I Had Fun Watching This Movie :
1. it was very funny watching the whole cinema go abuzz when the Malaysian Airlines signboard was shown onscreen, not once, not twice, but THREE times. everyone was like “woi woi malaysia ah, malaysia ah!!” wah so cool hor, MAS got free publicity!
(okay okay it’s not free after all, and the term for it is Product Placement. thanks, Boringest Blog for the heads up!)
2. how RIDICULOUSLY SUPERB was Tom Cruise’s resuscitation?!
3. my self confidence has been propelled to greater heights. why? because i can speak better cantonese than Maggie Q.
“heeheeehee ngo ho lan jun!”
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9 Comments Add your own
1. boringest | May 12th, 2006 at 4:21 am
Thought the MAS signboard wasn’t free - why would they put a signboard like that in a junkyard?
I thought it was product placement?
2. pinkpau | May 12th, 2006 at 4:44 am
hey, for real?
wow i clearly have a lot to learn about the business world :D
3. spiller | May 15th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
That black guy is Ving Rhames. He was in Con Air, Dawn of the Dead, and even Pulp Fiction! Of course, he was in MI:1 and MI:2 as well.
Yes, he’s cool.
4. minishorts | May 15th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
about maggie q: OMG I so agree with you. ‘ngo ho lan jun’ sounds obscenely foul and wrong!
i think that product placement thing gave a terribly wrong effect lah, it made malaysian airlines seem like it’s fit for the junkyard. gah.
5. pinkpau | May 15th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
spiller : have not watched any of the movies you just named .. :D
minishorts : she cant speak cantonese! i wonder how she managed to get those acting stints in hong kong @_@ bout the product placement, hehe at least it got people talking about MAS!
6. TCLC | May 18th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
err…Maggie Q is an American-Vietnamese if I’m not mistaken. So, American is just her native tongue man. Although yeah, it’s weird how she end up in the HongKong movie scenes. maybe it’s becoz she’s cute…
i dunno..i mean..MI is supposed to be cleaner type of mission execution (yeah, i’m referring to ‘ol TV series MI), but under Tom, it’s different. IMO, MI 3 is the roughest MI of all three. maybe it’s due to JJ Abrams also. yet, it is still entertaining, but not that much to me. MI 1 holds closest to the traditional MI.
Tom’s acting? still playing ‘cute boy’ face mimic, even under extreme pressure and emotional moment. but anyway, he’s better than Keanu…hahaha
7. pinkpau | May 19th, 2006 at 3:20 am
tclc : oh crap, she’s viet?? shit my apologies :P i always thought she was chinese.
8. KY | May 19th, 2006 at 10:12 am
wars of the world was actually quite bad if you’ve read the book. the movie totally killed the whole story.
9. MichelleShinyi | June 17th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
*snorts*
Yeah. That whole Maggie Q lost cat thing was a bit too mawkish for anyone to follow, and what was up with the ‘prayer for a lost kitty’ thing anyway?
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