{"id":37923,"date":"2013-06-27T21:25:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/movie-review-mission-impossible-3-2006.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:16:38","slug":"movie-review-mission-impossible-3-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/movie-review-mission-impossible-3-2006.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Mission: Impossible 3" (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Makes up for the second movie quite a bit, with good direction, good music, decent action, and a reasonably complex plot. \u00a0A weak ending and weakly-tied ensemble keep it from being spectactular, but it's quite a reasonable action flick to take in, or even possibly watch again.<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Mission: Impossible III (2006)<\/a>
\n It’s an MI week, I guess, and here we are with the third installment of the movie franchise — and as muddled and mediocre as M:I2 was, M:I3 nearly makes up for it, acting as a cross between M:I1, “True Lies”, and a bit of “Alias” paranoia thrown in for good measure. J J Abrams direction, with Kurtzman and Orci writing, makes for a decently solid plot with plenty of twists, turns, betrayals, switches, and McGuffins to satisfy any spy film wonk. T…\n <\/p>\n

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Makes up for the second movie quite a bit, with good direction, good music, decent action, and a reasonably complex plot. \u00a0A weak ending and weakly-tied ensemble keep it from being spectactular, but it's quite a reasonable action flick to take in, or even possibly watch again. A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Mission: Impossible III (2006) … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Mission: Impossible 3" (2006)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137803,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/aladdin-and-his-not-so-magical-live-action-movie.html","url_meta":{"origin":37923,"position":0},"title":"Aladdin and his not-so-magical live-action movie","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Feb-19 8:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I ... um ...I do like Will Smith. 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