{"id":24,"date":"2006-05-16T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/24"},"modified":"2006-06-15T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T00:50:57","slug":"mission-impossible-iii-2006-jj-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/24","title":{"rendered":"Mission Impossible III (2006, JJ Abrams)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside all the Tom Cruisey shenanigans and South Park sketches, he&#8217;s a really good actor for this type of movie.  Fun fake faces, costumes, cars and brain bombs.  The action scenes make my eyes hurt, and it&#8217;s all action scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Crudup, looking not so familiar, was the inside man and Phil Hoffman was an endearing psycho killer.  Everyone else did whatever, and probably did a fine job of it.  I was all caught up in the tension of the thing and the wild missions&#8230; thrilling.  Took exception to the happy-sappy final scene, where all survivors (TC, wife, three teammates, commander L Fishburne and the comic-relief tech guy) laugh and cheer, the camera taking turns showing them smile in close-up.  But later read a fine explanation of how Cruise maybe got brain-bombed or never woke up from eating a live electric cord, and the ending is a dying fantasy.  Katy had a point in the action scenes having way too many cuts, but that&#8217;s nothing new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside all the Tom Cruisey shenanigans and South Park sketches, he&#8217;s a really good actor for this type of movie. Fun fake faces, costumes, cars and brain bombs. The action scenes make my eyes hurt, and it&#8217;s all action scenes. Billy Crudup, looking not so familiar, was the inside man and Phil Hoffman was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[729,698,730],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-jj-abrams","tag-philip-seymour-hoffman","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}