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Mission Impossible

For my virgin trip to DA CATHAY upon returning from England (ahem ahem), caught the Digital Version of it last Fri nite, upon discovering earlier in the day that the online booking system of cathay was down (wat is up wif screwed up online systems?).

The movie is excellent. Absatively excellent. If you're looking for something that is action-packed Bombs Over Baghdad kinda fashiznits, this is it. Right from the beginning, it is full blown action every 5 minutes, rarely a quiet moment anywhere. So i'd suggest you ditch that GV nanchos coz u gonna be glued to the screen. It starts off being non-linear too, so pls dont be late for it.

Thankfully, Ethan Hunt (yummylicious Tom Hanks, I mean Tom Cruise) returns with short hair that he sported in MI:1. That MI:2 and his centre parting hair juz didnt work dudes. So this time, Ethan is finally settling down wif a fellow Scientology chick, and no more of those espionage mumbo-jumbo stuffs, until of course, he was given a mission in the middle of his engagement party. The guy that assigned him the mission (in the middle of a 24hr store, how romantic) looked strangely a lot like that dude from Starsky Bowl of Ed steven's fame. Anyways, the misson, should he choose to accept it, was given in the form of an instant camera. Coolness.

So the mission was, Keri Russell, (of felicity fame) had gone missing in the middle of an assignment, believed to be kidnapped by Philip Seymour of Capote fame (he reminded me too much of Benny Hill lah). Apparently Philip here deals wif monguls everywhere wif his stash of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now Ethan has been assigned to save her. (Its no wonder Felicity stopped its run. She quit Starbucks and went on to become an Agent. Why of course. Like duh)

He is reunited wif his ol' faithful, Ving Rhames (who constantly reminded me of High Tower Police Academy fame wif his moustachy) and 2 newbies, one of which is the oh-so-prettiful Maggie Q. Ving's da man that provides the wisecrack jokes sporadically here n there.

Overall, the plot is more grandeur and takes a nasty turn at the end. More pyros, bombs-away and we even get to check out the interior of the Vatican. (NO cameo from da Pope tho). But one thing which was a pain in the arse. There were no subtitles when the cast were speaking in foreign languages (eg. mandarin and italian) and even when Ethan has this freaky ability to lip-read, I have no idea wat was being mouthed during tat sequence. Now this could only be affecting the digital version. Give me feedback if you guys had any problems wif the non-digital ones.

The biggest action sequence would have to be the one Ethan has to jump onto another sky-scraper in China (with the help of physics, no less). But my favorite scene has to be when, at the bridge after Ethan's entourage had been hijacked, we see Ethan standing, and in the background in slow-mo, a helicopter rises wif masked SAS-like soldiers of fortune, sitting there coolly looking at Ethan. That was just way way too cool.

And in its bid to cut the movie short, they didnt show the sequence of Ethan getting his hands on the Rabbit's Foot in the building in China. Probably no budget lah but i kinda got lost as to where the Real Rabbit's Foot is.

On a whole, this is an excellent movie to kick-start all the great upcoming movies heading our way. Summer season has began!

4.5 / 5 char kueys!! Yum yum yum!

On another note, I caught MI:3 in the CATHAY cinema and it was very very very huge. Jakun saya. With the carpets and ushers and strobe lights playing around, the only things missing was me n my coat n scarve n hat n cigar, and my missus in her fox coat. But seriously, it looks very grand, tho the seats feel the same as the normal GVs. And while choosing our seats, the option screen was actually not big enough to display the whole theather. Yowzah! The poor girl had to scroll back n forth while i keep changing seats.