Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
I remember talking to someone about Die Hard 4 and they were critical of the movie because of the astonishingly unrealistic feats that John McClane lives through and I'd say they'd have the same opinion here as it's taken to another level with Ethan Hunt. I preferred the slightly more realistic tone of MI:3 to this. While it grew on me in the second half, I wasn't feeling the first half of the movie much. I think part of that feeling was that I dislike Simon Pegg's character a lot, particularly when he's not just an IT whiz. Why do writers of movies like this think you need comedic elements, or attempts at them? There is no way someone like Benji would be an agent in the field alongside someone like Ethan. It removes any believability the film and series develops. Finally, I am glad there was a twist with Ethan's wife, or otherwise it basically made MI:3 meaningless.
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