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06 May 2006

Tom Cruise; actor, Scientologist, casting guru?

Just got back from seeing Mission Impossible:III and while I'm not jumping for joy, it definitely had some AWESOME action sequences but fully ran out of steam in the third act. The main gist of the movie is that Ethan Hunt, a.k.a Tom Cruisazy, gets on the bad side of Owen Davian, a.k.a. Phillip Seymour Hoffman (totally slumming it after Capote), who promises to capture, torture and kill Ethan's wife played by Michelle Monaghan, who was so rad in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (seriously, see THAT movie, it was awesome). Now this is where things get distracting--Michelle is a dead ringer for Tom's prisoner, er, real life baby mama, Katie Holmes

I'm not talking identical twins here, but you have to admit, the likeness is.... unsettling. Making matters worse is the fact that the script is peppered with comments about how "Ethan" can't have a normal relationship because of his job--But does Ethan listen? Nope. Did Tom listen? Nope. Both of them risked their lives, friends and very livelihood to "rescue" the girl. Perhaps the film, and Tom's career, could have been saved if he just stayed away from the girl in the first place

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