After a six-year hiatus, the high-flying globe-trotting lip-reading Chinese-speaking master of disguise is back for a third movie.
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Handguns: even the unsuspecting newlywed wife eventually fires one. |
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Assault rifles: a disappointing lack of gee-whiz gadgetry here. |
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Requisite fancy sports car with hot-chick driver: check. |
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Explosions: plenty, by land, by air, and even intra-cranial. |
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Body count: plenty, almost boringly so. |
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Tom Cruise uncredibly whipping out the compass-and-protractor geometry: check |
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Globe-trotting: Berlin, Rome, Virginia, Shanghai. Who knew Tom Cruise could speak Italian and Chinese (no German required; everyone in Berlin is target practice)? For all the globe-trotting, there is an odd lack of subtitles; in fact, most subtitles only appear when Ethan Hunt is lip-reading. |
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#1 by A. Tsai on Sat May 13, 2006 - 6:41 am
the intracranial was pretty cool. but otherwise i am probably the only person on the planet who thought m:i2 was better