Mission: Impossible III

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Movie
German title Mission: Impossible III
Original title Mission: Impossible III
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Country of production United States , Germany , People's Republic of China
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director JJ Abrams
script JJ Abrams,
Alex Kurtzman ,
Roberto Orci
production Tom Cruise ,
Paula Wagner
music Michael Giacchino
camera Daniel Mindel
cut Maryann Brandon ,
Mary Jo Markey
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Mission: Impossible II

Successor  →
Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protocol

Mission: Impossible III (alternative title: M: i: III ) is an agent thriller from director J. J. Abrams from 2006 with Tom Cruise in the lead role. It is the third part in the Mission Impossible film series and the successor to Mission: Impossible II from 2000 . The sequel Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protocol was released in 2011.

action

At the beginning of the film, a man threatens the shackled IMF agent Ethan Hunt with the shooting of his wife, who is sitting across from him, who is tied up and gagged, if Hunt doesn't finally give him what he wants. Hunt tries to dissuade him because that's exactly what he gave him, but the man is not impressed and shoots the woman.

After the opening credits, the action jumps back a few days.

In order to be able to lead a quieter life with his fiancée Julia, Ethan Hunt has given up his work at the IMF ("Impossible Mission Force"). She thinks he works for the Department of Transportation. During their engagement party, Hunt receives a call from his former colleague, Musgrave, asking for his assistance. Hunt initially declines, but after seeing a video with more information, he changes his mind, knowing that his former student Lindsey has been kidnapped by a criminal named Owen Davian. He sets off and meets with his colleagues Luther, Declan and Zhen, with whom he tracks down Lindsey in Berlin . The mission seems to be successful, but then a tiny detonator explodes in Lindsey's head - she is instantly dead. Because of his close friendship with Lindsey, Hunt is determined to take revenge on Davian.

Finally, at Lindsey's funeral, Hunt receives a phone call telling him that she has sent him a postcard. Hunt discovers what is known as a microdot under their stamp , which Lindsey had hidden there. However, the decryption of the secret message it contains initially fails.

At the IMF, the hard drives that were seized in Berlin during Lindsey's liberation are now being checked. In the process, some emails can be restored, which suggest that Davian will be in the Vatican only a little later . Hunt quickly decides not to let Musgrave or his boss Brassel know. To Julia, who has no idea about his activities, he claims to be going on a business trip. However, she notices that he is lying to her, but he manages to convince her of his love for her by marrying her that same evening in the hospital where she works as a nurse.

In the Vatican, Hunt puts on a mask that looks astonishingly like Davian. The team manages to capture Davian and exchange it for the disguised Hunt. In this way, they come into possession of a suitcase that Davian had only recently received. It contains information about an object nicknamed "Rabbit's Paw", which Davian wants to sell for $ 850 million, which was never explained in detail in the film. During the return flight to the USA, Hunt tries to extort information about this object from Davian, but fails. Instead, Davian swears bloody revenge on his part. Hunt would have to watch the killing of his wife before he was killed himself.

During the transport to the IMF headquarters, Hunt is given the opportunity to see the now decrypted video message that was on Lindsey's microdot. In it, Lindsey warns him that there is a traitor in the ranks of the IMF because she knows that Davian has received a call from Brassel's office.

Shortly afterwards, the whole convoy is attacked and Davian is freed in a spectacular operation. A little later, Hunt receives a call from Davian. Julia had been kidnapped and Hunt could only save her if he could get Davian the "rabbit paw" from a laboratory in Shanghai within 48 hours . Hunt is unable to respond to this as he is suddenly surrounded by an IMF team that has orders to arrest him. Hunt tries to escape, but is caught and taken to an interrogation room. With Musgrave alone in the room, Musgrave gives him a secret message by moving his lips. The watchers behind the surveillance cameras are fooled, but Hunt can read the message from his lips. Musgrave knows Davian has Julia. He gives him more information and then slips him a knife, with which Hunt can free himself a short time later and escape.

Hunt then flies to Shanghai under a different identity and meets his team there again. Since the laboratory in which the “rabbit's paw” is kept is extremely difficult to access, Hunt swings - only fastened with a rope - from a building standing next to it onto the roof of the laboratory and can steal the “rabbit's paw”. Just five seconds before the 48 hours are up, he finally reaches Davian by phone, who tells him a meeting point where he should wait alone. Some time later, a car pulls up in which Hunt has to drink a liquid that knocks him out. When he wakes up again, a detonator is shot into his head through a nasal cavity, as was the case with Lindsey. Davian is standing in front of him, and his wife Julia is sitting in the chair across from him. Both tied up, Julia also gagged. The plot has now arrived at the opening scene of the film. Davian claims that Hunt did not give him the correct "rabbit paw", which he denies. After Davian shoots the woman, he leaves the room. Musgrave enters shortly afterwards and says he will explain everything to him. The "rabbit paw" should be sold by Davian to enemies of America in the Middle East, who would provoke a counterstrike by using it. America will then do what it always does: march in and "clean up" - and conclude contracts worth billions in the process. To be really sure that Hunt gave them the right item, they had to put Julia's life at risk. However, he then proves to the astonished Hunt that the woman killed was not Julia at all, but Davian's translator and security chief, who wore a mask and was now executed by Davian for her failure in Rome.

When Musgrave proves Julia is still alive over the phone, Hunt takes the opportunity and bites Musgrave's hand. He frees himself from his bonds, incapacitates Musgrave and grabs his cell phone. With the help of Benji, a colleague from his department, who traces the last call for him and guides him through the streets by phone, he can find Julia's whereabouts. But before he can free them, the two are surprised by Davian, who activated the bomb in Hunt's head, leaving him only a few minutes. A fight ensues in the course of which the two men take to the streets. Davian is hit by a vehicle and killed.

To defuse the bomb in his head, Hunt needs a defibrillator , but he cannot find it in the house. With the help of power cables and various other utensils, he builds a makeshift defibrillator and explains to Julia how to use his weapon. After she released the electricity on his instructions, the bomb was actually destroyed - and Hunt was left dead. Before Julia can revive him, however, Musgrave enters the room with the "rabbit paw", and Julia shoots him. After the successful resuscitation, Hunt decides to tell Julia the truth and tells her about his work at the IMF.

When they get back to the United States and Julia finally meets her husband's colleagues, Brassel takes Hunt aside and tells him that the White House has offered him a special position. Hunt replies that he doesn't want to make up his mind yet, but that he will go on honeymoon with Julia first. When he asked Brassel what exactly the "rabbit paw" was, he said that he would only tell him if Hunt promised to stay with the IMF. Hunt turns to leave and says he will send him a postcard from vacation. Then he leaves the office with Julia to the laughter and applause of the rest of the team.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews, earning a 71% rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 224 reviews. At Metacritic , a Metascore of 66, based on 42 reviews, could be achieved.

James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as a "cheap copy" of the Bond films ("cheap James Bond rip-off") with the usual gadgets, stunts and locations around the world. He continued to describe the film as "routine", better than Mission: Impossible , but worse than Mission: Impossible II . Berardinelli criticized that the actor Tom Cruise was too much visible in the film and that the character he was playing was too little visible. He described the direction of J. J. Abrams as “technically competent”, but not particularly “exciting” (“none of it is all that exciting”).

Cinema called the action sequences “spectacular”, but criticized “the involuntarily comical dialogues, the absence of even a single new genre idea, and Tom Cruise's sticky super-human attitude”.

Björn Helbig said at the start of the film that the film "thanks to good, if tiring action over time, playful actors [...] and a successful mixture of hardness and occasional humor has become a film that is definitely worth seeing for fans of the series" . However, the makers should make sure in the future that “the viewer is not under-challenged by the story”.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film had "no ideas and extensions of its own" and was satisfied "with the fulfillment of high genre standards". He was "pure action with an aseptic hero whose fate is not really close".

background

  • Originally the film was supposed to be partly shot in the Berlin Reichstag building , but the council of elders of the German Bundestag rejected this request. The President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse justified this decision with the words: "The Bundestag is and will remain a special place and should not be marketed for commercial purposes." Due to "artistic differences" with the director Joe Carnahan , Tom Cruise , who also acted as a producer , changed JJ Abrams took him out without further ado. The new director was not interested in Berlin and turned away from the other planned locations in Berlin.
  • Filming of Mission: Impossible III began on July 12, 2005 in Rome and ended on November 29, 2005 in Shanghai . They also took place in Virginia and California .
  • The production cost was given at around 150 million US dollars . On opening weekend, the film in the United States played about 47 million dollars, in Germany it fell far short of expectations, triggering speculation that Cruise for his Scientology -Membership and be as childish Considered behavior in connection with the relationship with Katie Holmes , the Would have lost the sympathy of the audience. Overall, the film was still a huge financial success, with gross revenues of nearly $ 400 million worldwide.
  • At the end of the credits, a Hanso Foundation, a fictional foundation from the US television series Lost, is listed under “Special Acknowledgments” . J. J. Abrams is the producer and writer of Lost.
  • As Hunt fled the IMF building, knocked over a pile of brochures . The camera remains focused on the flyers for a moment and you can see that they are information brochures from the Virginia Department of Transportation , the front organization of the IMF.
  • In the scene at the airport there is a small homage to another agent: In the background, Jack Bauer is asked to go to gate 24.
  • The Nokia N92 mobile phone, which was not yet commercially available at the time, was used in the film .
  • Although the film was shot from 2005 onwards, the postcard that Lindsey Farris sends to Ethan Hunt bears a stamp from the German Federal Post Office (disbanded in 1994).
  • The film opened in German cinemas on May 4, 2006.
  • The "rabbit paw" is the MacGuffin of the film. Although it plays an important role in the course of the plot, it is not known what it is actually.
  • In the original English version, the men of the special unit who rescue Davian on the bridge speak German.
  • The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by Berliner Synchron . The dialogue book written Alexander lion , synchronous Director led Frank Schaff .

role actor German speaker
Ethan Hunt Tom Cruise Patrick Winczewski
Luther Stickell Ving Rhames Tilo Schmitz
Zhen Lei Maggie Q Alexandra Wilcke
Declan Gormley Jonathan Rhys Meyers Norman Matt
Owen Davian Philip Seymour Hoffman Oliver Stritzel
Julia Meade Michelle Monaghan Gundi Eberhard
John Musgrave Billy Crudup Peter Flechtner
Theodore Brassel Laurence Fishburne Tom Vogt
Lindsey Farris Keri Russell Tanja Geke
Benji Dunn Simon Pegg Tobias Kluckert
Kevin Greg Grunberg Bernhard Völger
Melissa Meade Sasha Alexander Bianca Krahl
Rick meade Aaron Paul Björn Schalla

Sequels

In August 2006, Paramount Pictures , the production company of the Mission Impossible trilogy, announced that Tom Cruise's contracts had not been renewed due to his negative behavior in recent months and that they were hoping for a signing from Brad Pitt for Mission: Impossible 4 .

In February 2010 it was announced that Tom Cruise had slipped into the lead role as Ethan Hunt one more time. The producer was J. J. Abrams . The Alias -Autoren Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec wrote for a "very cool" idea of the script Abrams. The fourth part of the series, which appeared on December 15, 2011 under the title Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , was directed by Brad Bird . In the German-speaking countries the film is entitled Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protocol . Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation followed in 2015 and Mission: Impossible - Fallout in 2018 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Mission: Impossible III . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 958 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Mission: Impossible III . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Mission: Impossible III at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  4. ↑ Mission: Impossible III at Metacritic (English)
  5. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  6. ↑ Mission: Impossible III on cinema.de
  7. ^ Mission: Impossible III on filmstarts.de
  8. ↑ Mission: Impossible III. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ^ No "Mission Impossible" in the Reichstag. RP-Online, May 6, 2004, accessed January 3, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Conrad: Missions and Millions. Tagesspiegel, April 29, 2006, accessed January 3, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Mission: Impossible III on boxofficemojo.com
  12. ↑ Mission: Impossible 3 . In: FBW . German Film and Media Rating (FBW), accessed on October 1, 2017 .
  13. ↑ a b Mission: Impossible III. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 28, 2019 .
  14. ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/news-und-specials/artikel/fortigung-der-kultserie-mission-impossible-4-kom,4084380,ApplicationArticle.html