#mission impossible 3

[kindlythevoid]

Listen, Ethan Hunt is at his core a silly goofy guy. Can he improvise? Sure! Guy loves to do it, does it all the time in fact, favorite way to do things. Anything that requires an actual thought?? A single thought spanning more than the next hour?? Nothing. Not a single braincell of his is working. This man hopped into the helicopter knowing nothing other than the fact that it was constantly yelling at him and that was a Bad Thing. Why? He doesn’t know. Listen. Listen. The man is smart; we all saw him do physics in the third movie when he pendulumed across a building. But also?? This man gets by with the Bare Minimum amount of Critical Thinking Skills (tm). The amount of times (at least two) he has gotten through a mission hoping the targets had never seen each other before?? Jumping into/through/generally towards something with the wish that he makes it and then doesn’t!?! I love Ethan, but it is because the only two thoughts going through that man’s head is Love Friends/People and Jump/Climb Things.

[airlocksandaviaries]

I'm Back on my Bottom Ethan Bullshit

[changethecircumstances]

"That look in your eyes is a pain in my ass" is such a great Luther line lol

[theimfarchives]

The Posters of Mission: Impossible

[revolant]

Sometimes romance can be electrocuting your husband of two days who lied to you about his job (you are starting to think he doesn’t actually care about traffic patterns) so that the bomb in his brain can’t explode and before you do it he tells you he loves you because he wants those to be his last words if he dies and then you have to restart his heart afterwards. And what of it

[oliviatom]

Ethan and Julia are my favorite couple. I think she is Ethan's last love. I am very sad that he had to let her go. 🥲

[below-average-fangirl]

Ethan teaching Julia how to use the gun as the charge is going off in his head.

Julia using the reflection to see the bad guy.

Ethan being impressed that she killed the bad guy.

I fuckin love them and man, the ending hurts knowing what ultimately happens 😭😭😭

[safehousebooze]

Ethan and the dog from MI3, requested by @maverickcalf

So defeated and tired, can't even pet the dog 💔

[ilsefaust]

Mission: Impossible III (2006) · dir. J.J. Abrams writ. JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, & Roberto Orci

[final-reckoning-on-the-brain]

There is just something so kinda insightful how, Benji, something of an absolute staple character of these last few M:I movies, didn't even appear in the trailer of this movie.

A tech guy with two scenes and some humour thrown in. Nothing more.

[huntmavs]

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE invented comedy

[static-random]

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

[changethecircumstances]

The extras are hilariously nonchalant when Davian gets killed by the car lol like ur hear screams but no one blinks an eye

[bontenmarumaru0401]

色縛りM:i:III

[why-am-i-pluto]

“I am a survivor.” 

(insp) 

[ziracona]

The thing people don’t understand is that Mission Impossible is unequivocally one of the best franchises just ever.

You think it’s just a popcorn action flick if you haven’t seen them but you’re so wrong; it’s a found family of the best people ever, amazing writing and dialogue and characterization, full realization and development, and amazing execution for a character-centric spy series that absolutely dazzles on the stunts. The cast is better developed and written than most full length /shows/ with 29x the runtime. Ethan is introduced as a baby having the worst day humanly possible at like age 20 and then it just gets worse until he snaps and is like “Fuck you im going to win I don’t give a fuck you killed everyone I love infucking hate you you betrayed us I fucking hate you so much you’re awful and you need to go down” and straps a hellicopter to a bullet train he’s /on/ as it goes into a tunnel. Then literally smacks a bomb to its windshield while making eye contact w the person who ruined his life. Fucking love that funky little man; there’s literally /nothing/ he won’t put himself through to protect other people. Literally the only reason Ethan Hunt ever survives period is he does the wildest balls to the wall shit you ever saw and /God/ goes “Oh worm? 👀” Ilsa is /the/ best written blockbuster fighty lady I’ve ever saw. Her character intro in Rogue Nation alone *cheffs kiss* MI /invented/ “Put on a Cruise Ship”—the much better sister trope to “Put on a Bus,” where instead of sending them away, a character written out of their previous role is sent to personal fulfillment, happiness, growth, and still loves and is connected to everyone from before.

PLUS you have a great cast, incredible comedy moments, and the added horror of watching Tom Cruise actually do shit like hang off the Burj Khalifa for real, or hold his breath for six minutes, or halo jump, and you cry because not even the people who /built/ the Burj Khalifa should have ever been on the outside of that thing it’s fucking BIG. If the item is high enough you can fall and recite a whole Shakespeare monologue before you hit the ground it’s too fucking high. You can watch Tom Cruise break ribs in real time. Ethan runs like a man /going/ somewhere that alone. Never seen someone I was so sure I could never outrun. The whole Russian spy enemy-to-bro in Ghost Protocol, Carter’s whole getting the tragically fridged love interest tough spy character as a lady. MI3 is like a Romance I love and I don’t even fucking like Romance as a genre. But I cry. Fuckinnnnn GOOD movies. Ethan’s always ping-ponging between kicking ass and getting his ass kicked someone help him, but the only person qualified at all is Luther the Team Mom and Ethan sadly can’t be stopped. It’s so cute. Ethan gets traumatized at age 20 and then is like “I LOVE my friends and would never hurt them” but as a still really effective spy and the weird dichotomy there. He’s so good. Man drinks respect women juice too; never loved a man like I love Ethan Hunt. And Benji, Brandt, Luther, Ilsa, and Julia are all so good. The lack of a need to do /anything/ to up the ante or make it darker or lighter and instead just strict adherence to the story they want to tell? Benji Dunn alone??? The Vibes the family of spies has?? It’s just—It’s so good I don’t have words. I got dragged to MI Rogue Nation in theaters and it was the first I ever saw and I was expecting it to just be American James Bond, but instead I got a thoughtful, brilliant, wonderful work of art