Ethan Hunt, still done expertly by Tom Cruise, after escaping a Russian prison, is right away on another mission with a team completely unfamiliar to the audience. But then *gasp* they are betrayed! Thus, they are completely cut off from the rest of the agency, are blamed by Russian officials for destroying part of their government building, and various other sundry things. Cruise himself, is picked up discreetly by the US Secretary of Defense, only to see the man get murdered in front of him. Taking the supposed analyst who was in the car with him (played by Jeremy Renner, who I'm surprised is not the barely-in-control, ragemachine that he's played in "The Hurt Locker," and "The Town."), they recon with the rest of the team on another whirlwind tour of the world to stop the somewhat-well-intentioned, nuclear-extremist, Russian terrorist, and his flunkies.
As is typical of the franchise, there is a LOT of what the bad guy in MI2 called, "acrobatic insanity." But as I mentioned before, the multitude of gadgetry and spy equipment seems to not prefer to function as well as previous movies, leading to a lot of inventive quick-thinking on the agents part (most of which does not boil to "kill the opposition"). In addition to Cruise's superspy, and Renner's cool-headed but efficient agent, Simon Pegg brings his funny, tech-guy Benji persona back, but this time, also as a field agent now so we get to see him be the badass "Hot Fuzz" Nicholas Angel as well. We also get the Smurfette of the team being almost as hot as the chick was in MI2 but with a lot more no-nonsense attitude, and a revenge subplot.
Overall, great great great film that's a thrill ride from start to finish.
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