Mission Impossible 3 (2006)

In 2000, star Tim Cruise was in top of the world. By 2006, he had a bit of a PR problem. Though his previous film War of the Worlds was a certified hit, his off the screen presence was becoming more and more of a problem. Some people would say toxic. Getting in arguments played out in public with Brooke Shields’s about the need to do away with prescribed drugs. To marrying a woman who was twenty years his junior. And of course jumping on talk show couches proclaiming his love for said woman. Directors were not wanting to work with him. And the general public, the same people who had spent tons of money to buy tickets to his movies, was rapidly starting to turn on him.
So after a dissolved attempt to get David Fincher to direct Mission Impossible 3, perhaps the most important movie of Cruise’s career, who does he turn to in order to resurrect his career? An unknown in the cinematic universe director by the name of JJ Abrams.
Listen to Matt, Garrett and Adam dissect the sequel that would set a tone that would permeate through the entire rest of the franchise. Matt, not the biggest Abrams fan, and Garrett, certainly have their opinions that have been known in the past. But what about Adam?
Stay tuned. mission Impossible Ghost Protocol isn’t far behind.