Mission: Impossible III

Mission: Impossible III (also known as M:i:III) is a 2006 action film, the third based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/mission-impossible-3b.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> The film was directed by J. J. Abrams, and was his first film as a director. It was first released on April 26, 2006 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and widely released in the United States on May 5, 2006. Filming began in Rome, Italy in July 2005 and ended in October. The film had been kept under extremely tight wraps, and very little was known of its plots or new featured characters during filming. Location filming took place in China (Shanghai and Xitang), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Rome and Caserta), the United States (California and Virginia), and Vatican City. The movie begins with a cold open, in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is told that someone has "planted an explosive charge in your head." This person (Philip Seymour Hoffman) then demands the location of an item known as "The Rabbit's Foot", threatening to kill a woman named Julia (Michelle Monaghan) after a count of ten if Ethan does not comply. Ethan, visibly distraught, attempts to bargain with his assailant, but does not succeed before Hoffman's character counts to ten. A smash cut then precedes the film's title card and opening credits. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/missoimpossivelII09b.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> Six years after the events of Mission: Impossible II, Ethan has retired from being an IMF team leader, instead opting to train new IMF recruits and live quietly with his fiancée Julia, a hospital nurse who knows nothing of his life as a member of IMF. During their engagement party, Ethan is called upon by fellow IMF agent John Musgrave (Billy Crudup). Via the iconic self-destructing message, this one hidden in a disposable camera, Musgrave informs him that Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell), one of Ethan's protégés, has been captured in Berlin by Owen Davian (Hoffman), a prominent dealer in the international black market, and asks Ethan to lead the rescue effort. <div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/yiuT8lHftq0&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yiuT8lHftq0&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><!--center--></div>