Mission: Impossible 3

We all know how these movies work by now. Phillip Seymour Hoffman will be the bad guy who does clever evil things, Tom Cruise will save the day, and Ving Rhames will have a small role to remind audiences that he's been in every movie. The M:I theme music will play while explosions go off everywhere, and Michelle Mognahan will be put in peril so that Cruise can save the day in a more crowd-pleasing manner. Actually, I meant to describe the movie, but I've managed to describe the trailer, as well. Makes sense, since the Mission: Impossible movies each play like overlong trailers anyway.

Billy Crudup, Keri Russell and Simon Pegg have roles, but they are absent from the trailer. What does make it into the trailer are Cruise and Hoffman exchanging scowls, some explosions and gunfire, and that god-forsaken theme music. The one element I really liked was a final scene where an explosion erupts about 100 feet behind Cruise, and he is flung forward into the side of a parked car. But that has largely to do with me hating Scientology. The rest of the trailer looks...well, like it's Mission: Impossible 3.