This film has had some bad reviews by many people, although an old Irish man on the tram told me it was very good. I have to side with the Irish man on this one.
Maybe it's because prolonged exposure to Big Brother has permanently killed off any brain cells I had left, but I really enjoyed the film. It was everything you would expect from a film of this kind: completely implausible plot, cheesy dialogue and ridiculous action.
It was great! I especially enjoyed the 'heist' aspects: the attack on the factory in Berlin and the Vatican City coup. For comedy value they didn't even bother to show what happened inside the building in Shanghai.
The plot didn't make any sense. Even after someone explained it to me, slowly, I still didn't get it. I couldn't understand who had set whom up (but enjoyed the thing that it was to make money for the US gvt or something.) Whatever, the "plot" was completely incidental to the rest of the film.
And it just looked really good, unashamedly so. Everyone was ridiculously beautiful. There was lots of cool technology (eg the portable mask-fabricator - coming soon to an Innovations catalogue near you.) and it was all coated in a thick layer of kick-ass. Take the scene where, after just kidnapping Truman Capote, the four of them are sailing down the river in a speedboat looking cool as fuck. For no reason whatsoever. And that just sums up the whole film: Style 1 Substance 0.
There was some rather clever direction going on, Simon Pegg got to be genuinely rather funny and there was a scene in which Tom Cruise tried to bring someone back to life being shot at in a helicopter navigating a field of windmills.
It can't really get a higher score than X-Men just because it was so superficial. Also I was disappointed because I had been led to believe this film had been shot entirely in Berlin (there were rumours they were going to film inside the Reichstag). But instead they showed a scummy factory somewhere near Potsdam for 5 seconds.
Anyway, M:i:III gets III stars out of V
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