{"id":231,"date":"2006-05-26T22:33:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T02:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/26\/mission-impossible-iii\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T00:22:17","slug":"mission-impossible-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/mission-impossible-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams’ Mission: Impossible III is preposterous and exhausting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few disconnected thoughts on J.J. Abrams<\/a>‘ Mission: Impossible III<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I rue the day Terminator 2<\/em> (aka “T2<\/em>“) came out and was a big hit; now every pre-ordained blockbuster comes abbreviated: ID4<\/em>, LXG<\/em>, AVP<\/em>, X2<\/a><\/em>, X3<\/a><\/em>, and now of course M:I:III<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like most summer action blockbusters, M:I:III<\/em> is at first enjoyably preposterous but quickly becomes exhausting. Although the plot is incredibly complex, it has no throughline to thread it all together; it’s a series of sequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M:I:III<\/em> is capped off with a truly terrible song by Kanye West. Of course it’s hard to top the version by U2’s rhythm section<\/a>, but the producers could have covered themselves by picking somebody with a little more edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Michael Jackson, it’s now almost impossible to watch Tom Cruise<\/a> perform without his public persona coloring everything. On the other hand, he’s nothing if not intense, so perhaps that works in his favor here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few disconnected thoughts on J.J. Abrams‘ Mission: Impossible III: I rue the day Terminator 2 (aka “T2“) came out and was a big hit; now every pre-ordained blockbuster comes abbreviated: ID4, LXG, AVP, X2, X3, and now of course M:I:III. Like most summer action blockbusters, M:I:III is at first enjoyably preposterous but quickly becomes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[469,1315,883,74,1381,41],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-stars","category-movies","tag-jj-abrams","tag-kanye-west","tag-mission-impossible","tag-philip-seymour-hoffman","tag-sequel","tag-tom-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/mission-impossible-iii.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-3J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5834,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/star-trek-into-darkness-comes-with-too-much-baggage\/","url_meta":{"origin":231,"position":0},"title":"J.J. 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