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Dir: Michael Mann
Writ: Michael Mann & TV show by Anthony Yerkovich

• Colin Farrell - ‘Sonny’ Crockett
• Jamie Foxx - Ricardo Tubbs
• Li Gong - Isabella
• Naomie Harris - Trudy Joplin
• Ciarán Hinds - FBI Agent Fujima

If I’m honest there isn’t much to say about this film. Overall it is a huge amount of meh. Nothing more, nothing less.

Maybe I should at the very least try?
Basic blot outline, Sonny and Ricardo are undercover agents, and after one an interagency force gets discovered, they go undercover in order to find out what agency is responsible for the leak, and how the drug dealers discovered this. So off they travel, to some poor drug-ridden, crime-infested South American country. And get the gig, now they are in with the baddies. But not quite trusted.

And then Sonny starts to fall for the main badguys’ girl, who is also a very efficent “business woman”

But I just didn’t care. Scenes and scenes of talk, talk, and wait for it, yes, a little more talk. Interspersed there are some very pretty shots. But scenery and talking doesn’t make for an entertaining film… actually I was entertained by Cave of the Yellow Dog which was very much scenery and dialogue, so I guess you can. But not here. It is all just so pointless. There’s no tension or drama. And while the action scenes do look great, they don’t feel great.

My final verdict? I’ll paraphrase the woman who left the cinema just after me “In all fairness now, that was fucking woeful.”

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Tags: 5 Stars, action, Anthony Yerkovich, based on a TV show, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Farrell, crime, drugs, explosions, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, meh, Miami Vice, Michael Mann, Naomie Harris, police, undercover cops

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Dir: J.J. Abrams
Writ: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, J.J. Abrams & Bruce Geller

• Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Owen Davian
• Ving Rhames - Luther Stickell
• Michelle Monaghan - Julia Meade
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Declan

The trouble with M:I3 is that it is in essence a meh film. We all go knowing what to expect; gadgets, stunts, and Tom Cruise coming out a winner. And that is what happens in this film, so we can’t really complain. There is no real need to complain, because if you went to see this film expecting any more of that, well, then you’ve no one to blame but yourself.

M:I3 also suffers from having an annoyingly long name and a crap looking acronym. Is it MI3, M:I3, M:I 3, M:Iiii or any other variation? Who knows.

All in all I quite enjoyed this film. I didn’t expect much, and I got exactly that. Tom Cruise ran far too often, but it is The Cruise, and he is obliged to have at least 5 running scenes in ever major motion picture he is involved in. But the baddie was cool and evil in an unexplained 2 dimensional way.

The Julie character was annoying though. Just far too good. Only, she didn’t really have a character, she was just the “damsel in distress.” But plus points must be awarded for Jonathan Rhys Meyers, although he will always be the fella who shot Michael Collins, and his accent was very much stock oirish.

All in all, enjoyable trash flick.

Tags: 5 Stars, action, Alex Kurtzman, based on a TV show, Bruce Geller, gadgets, J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, meh, Michelle Monaghan, Mission Impossible, Mission: Impossible III, Philip Seymour Hoffman, predictable, Roberto Orci, stunts, Tom Cruise, trash but enjoyable, Ving Rhames

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