Mission Impossible 3 Ultimate Missions Collect (1996)

"[1] Exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable.  Desson Thomson, Washington Post
"[2] Every car chase, every plane crash, every potential drop off a cliff is a masterpiece of grace and surprise.  Ella Taylor, LA Weekly
"[1] Enormous fun.  Mark Salisbury, Empire
"[3] A gratifyingly clever, booby-trapped thriller...  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"[3] ...an expertly engineered popcorn movie...  Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"[2] ...terrific energy, alternating riveting action sequences with intimate material...  Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian

Editor's Note This collection presents all three blockbuster MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE films based on the 1960s television series of the same name: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (2000), and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (2006). See individual titles for details.

	Billy Crudup
	Dougray Scott
	Emmanuelle Beart
	Jean Reno
	Jon Voight
	Michelle Monaghan
	Philip Seymour Hoffman
	Thandie Newton
	Tom Cruise
	Ving Rhames
	Brian De Palma - [1] Director
	J.J. Abrams - [3] Director
	John Woo - [2] Director

ReelViews 7 of 10
[3] Mission: Impossible III provides lots of action, but too little excitement. It generates lots of pyrotechnics, but too little heat. And it offers lots of Tom Cruise, but too little Ethan Hunt. In short, if you're yearning for a flashy, leave-your-brain-at-the-door summer movie that never does anything interesting or challenging, Mission: Impossible III has what you're looking for. It's loud, raucous, frenetic, and blows things up real good. But it's testosterone without adrenaline, danger without suspense. Maybe it's foolish to be disappointed by a pure popcorn movie, but as I walked out of this film, I felt it had failed in its mission of pure entertainment. - James Berardinelli

Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
[1] I'm not sure I could pass a test on the plot of "Mission:Impossible." My consolation is that the screenwriters probably couldn't, either. The story is a nearly impenetrable labyrinth of post-Cold War double-dealing, but the details hardly matter; it's all a set-up for sensational chase sequences and a delicate computer theft operation, intercut with that most reliable of spy movie standbys, the midnight rendezvous under a street lamp in a chilly foreign capital...The bottom line on a film like this is, Tom Cruise looks cool and holds our attention while doing neat things that we don't quite understand -- doing them so quickly and with so much style that we put our questions on hold, and go with the flow. - Roger Ebert