Movie: Mission Impossible III
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Movie:
- The Review Mission Impossible III
- Actor Tom Cruise
영화 Mission Impossible III 가 이번 주말에 전 세계적으로 동시개봉을 했습니다. 1996년, 2000년 1편과 2편에 이어 이번에 개봉된 3편은 전작들과는 달리 톰 크루즈가 연기하는 주인공 Ethan Hunt 의 "가족에 대한 사랑"이라는 theme이 가미되었습니다. 그는 그가 속한 IMF (Impossible Mission Force)의 실전 임무에서 한발 물러나 후배 특수 요원들을 훈련시키는 일을 하고 있고, Julia (Michelle Monaghan)와 사랑에 빠져 결혼을 합니다. 그러나 자신이 훈련시킨 후배 여성 요원이 임무중 납치된 후 사망하자 끝내 다시 실제 임무에 뛰어듭니다. 올해 Capote 라는 영화로 아카데미 남우 주연상을 받은 Philip Seymour Hoffman이 바로 그가 상대하는 악역입니다. 한편, Mission Impossible 1, 2편이 북미에서만 도합 4억달러가 넘는 훌륭한 흥행기록을 세웠지만 내용면에서는 비평가들에게 좋은 평을 받지 못했듯이, 3편 또한 볼거리는 풍부하나 내용이나 주제가 관객들에게큰 감흥을 주지 못한다는 평을 받고 있습니다.
Washington Post
No heart, few thrills in Mission Impossible III
So, we've waited six years for this? Well someone has, although I can honestly say that I have not been feverish with anticipation. Nor have I had anyone say to me, in a professional or personal capacity, "Those 'Mission: Impossible' films -- man, those are my favorites."
Still, the first two installments, released in 1996 and 2000, attracted audiences; their combined gross in North America alone was nearly $400 million, and the films were designed to appeal to international audiences. A third chapter wasn't as clamored for by fans as it was by its studio, ravenous for star-driven brand-name product.
And that's what they got with "M:I III," a slick, shiny and marketable bell-ringer, as transparently insincere as Tom Cruise's smile. It lacks any of the spy-vs.-spy invention of TV's "Alias" or even a touch of the suspense of "Lost," the TV shows created by the film's director and cowriter, J.J. Abrams.
The first film's allure came primarily from fond memories of the clever TV series that inspired it, which, for all its disguises and artfully planned espionage, was almost always about the con. Adding credibility was an occasionally brilliant director, Brian De Palma, and a legendary screenwriter, Robert Towne. Part 2 gave Cruise a mostly new team of good-looking super-spies -- as does this film -- and the cult of Hong Kong action ace John Woo, but couldn't pass the snap-question test: What was it about?
"M:I III" isn't about to make the same mistake. Abrams makes that clear early. What this movie is about is family -- or, at the least, about its hero Ethan Hunt (Cruise) deciding he will have one by acquiring a wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Ethan is fully prepared to walk away from world-saving; everyone from new boss Brassel (Laurence Fishburne), who reels him back in, to the only returning member of the gang, computer colossus Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), is of the opinion that intimate relationships are impossible to maintain when one party lives a life of secrecy and duplicity.
But it is his devotion to his unofficial family, represented by his little-sister-like protégé, Lindsey (Keri Russell), that compels Ethan to go after vicious Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an arms and information dealer who has allegiance to no one. The casting of Hoffman, fresh from a best actor Oscar for "Capote," is considered a great coup, but he symbolizes the "only-the-best" ethic that Cruise has always subscribed to. And as convincingly nasty as Hoffman is, I still had little idea what he really wanted or why.
The other members of the cast have similarly impressive credentials, with Billy Crudup playing Fishburne's go-to guy, Musgrave, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers ("Match Point") and Maggie Q, a Hong Kong action star as cerebral as she is physical, as members of the M:I team.
Ethan has not gone soft with domesticity; he can still slither out of any situation, pilot a speedboat and remind us what made the idea of "Mission: Impossible" so much fun. But it's time to say this out loud: This guy is a movie star, given an actual character to play -- in "Jerry Maguire," "Collateral," even "Minority Report" -- but he's not an action star, and his heroics and artificial heart can't keep the adrenaline pumping. Like its predecessors, "M:I III" might make a lot of money, but it makes no discernible impression.
