Mission: Impossible III (2006) on Netflix
PG-1320062h 6mActionAdventureThriller
Ethan Hunt has settled into training IMF recruits and a life with his fiancée, Julia. Trainee Lindsey Farris is captured while investigating arms dealer Owen Davian, and Hunt is drawn back.
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Plot summary
IMF trainee Lindsey Farris is taken while looking into the arms dealer Owen Davian. Ethan Hunt has left fieldwork to train recruits, and his fiancée, the nurse Julia Meade, knows nothing about his job. John Musgrave, the agency's director of operations, asks Hunt to bring Farris home and gives him a team: Luther Stickell, Declan Gormley and Zhen Lei. The rescue in Berlin yields two damaged laptops, and the data recovered from them points to Davian and to a biological hazard he intends to collect. Ethan and Julia marry, and he assembles an unofficial operation to take Davian in Vatican City.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Billy Bob Thornton was offered the villain role of Owen Davian but turned it down because he did not want to be typecast as a bad guy; Philip Seymour Hoffman took the part instead.
- J.J. Abrams offered Martin Landau a small cameo reprising his 1960s Mission: Impossible television role of Rollin Hand, but Landau turned it down because he disliked the direction the franchise had taken and wanted a bigger part.
- During an earlier, abandoned version of the film developed by director Joe Carnahan, Kenneth Branagh was set to play a villain modeled on real-life Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
- As a promotional stunt, Paramount hid digital audio players playing the film's theme song inside 4,500 Los Angeles Times newspaper vending boxes; the devices frequently came loose and were mistaken for bombs, prompting police bomb squads to detonate several of the boxes.
- The film's release became entangled in a real media controversy when a report claimed Tom Cruise had threatened to skip promoting Mission: Impossible III unless Viacom's Comedy Central pulled a rerun of the South Park episode 'Trapped in the Closet,' a claim that spread to outlets like E! News.
