The Rewatch Party 251 - Mission Impossible 3 (2006)

About this episode

The hosts discuss the chaotic and action-packed elements of 'Mission Impossible 3' while highlighting its unique storytelling and character dynamics.

Tom Cruise is at an engagement party pretending to be normal, which mostly involves making drinks, studying "traffic patterns", and quietly alarming everyone in the room. Within minutes, he’s thrown all the ice into the backyard, taken a mysterious call, and disappeared to Berlin before anyone can question the growing puddle on the lawn. His fiancée accepts this without hesitation, which is honestly a great starting point for everyone here. This is J.J. Abrams’ $150 million debut, handed to him because Tom Cruise watched Alias at 2 a.m. and trusted the vibes. The result is a movie powered less by logic and more by momentum counterbalanced by Philip Seymour Hoffman calmly counting to ten. Around that, we sit back and enjoy the spectacle: Vatican break-ins, exploding highways, helicopter chases, and an aggressively unexplained Rabbit's Foot. Nick, Elise, and Anthony sort through the chaos, from defribulated brain bombs, to Ving Rhames operating rollerball sniper cannons, to Laurence Fishburne delivering an all-time GOATed Ted Talk on the power of rehetorical questions. We are all Julia today, as we go from trusting fiancée to action-ready medic in about forty-eight hours, and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nick, Elise, Anthony

Topics covered

• action film
• movie review
• Tom Cruise
• J.J. Abrams
• Mission Impossible

Keywords

• Mission Impossible 3
• Tom Cruise
• J.J. Abrams
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• action scenes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: J.J. Abrams, Emergency Exit podcast network

Books & works: Mission Impossible 3

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