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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Title : review: MI:3
Time : 11:10 pm
Earworm: When The Lights Go Out~~5ive
ok, so i went in with low expectations, thats the best way to go to a movie. and whaddya know, i found it wasn't half bad! warning though, for anti-cruise people, this IS all about Tom Cruise. it's a friggin cruise machine. all the supporting characters don't even seem like supporting, they're like extras. Keri Russell had all of what, 20 minutes into the movie and she's dead. Hunt's team of three don't get much screen time either. ooh, what a waste of jonathan rhys meyers. loved the scene where he and ethan hunt pretended to be DHL drivers and shouting italian at each other, tho it's probably garbled italian, like how the translator for Davien spoke unintelligible Cantonese and how Hunt yelled chou4 kai4 (supposed to be zhou3 kai1) at the people on the streets of shanghai. and why the hell is there a MAS logo at a dumping site in Shanghai????
When I go to an action flick, the first of the summer blockbusters, no less, i expect cool action, hot action, pure action. so it was good, really, though marred by the constant tut-tutting by an auntie behind. and when i watch an action movie, i don't expect to process twists in the plot, because my mind has already settled in no-brainer-soak-in-all-the gadgets- car-chase-and-fight- scenes- galore- mode. so when the baddie was not who we thought it was and the explanation comes, i hate it when this happens, im left blur and grasping at what is going on. well, if u don't have a decent plot you'll be accused of just using billions on special effects and when u DO want to conceive a storyline you get blamed for stepping out of line of a typical action movie. Ok, cant win with this picky reviewer.
and of course, there's not enough eye candy for the gals. yeah, maggie q is hot, but the red dress with the hole looks like they're trying too hard to make her sizzle.
and the oh so predictable ending. of course the good guys live!
but i wonder what will happen if Hunt died and left his wife to struggle in Shanghai. *demented laughter*
Rating: 3.5/5
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