MI:3 doesn't suck... that bad

OK, let me be up front. As Men on Films would say "Hated it!". But I'm not going to say the MI:3 sucked or that any scene that relied on dialog was painfull to watch. But It's a close call and there were a lot of dialog scenes such as:

• Girlfriends talking about Ethan and he comes out of nowhere and goes: "Lake Wataka!" [Edit] Yes, I'm aware he was reading lips and would tie in later in the movie. Whipdedo!
  
• Maggie Q's character talks about a prayer to bring a dog back to life. Ok, sorry, but I laughed real hard. Sorry for those I offended.
• MI3 does gets my most agonizing 3 minutes of my life award. Ethan Hawks Girlfriend knows something is up with Ethan's commercial banking job, but she feel he's hiding something from their relationship. So looking at Tom Cruise staring at her, trying to say something, stopping, rethinking, trying to say something, stopping, rethinking...is going to tell her...no....Bleep Bleep Bleep.... JUST SAYING SOMETHING SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SCENE!!!!!!!!!!!

But enough of the crappy acting, this is suppose to be an action film. Too bad this was the most un-original action movie I have ever seen. Norwood Matt's contributions are found in Red below.

• Capsule inserted into head via nasal sinage passage. - Total Recall
• Bridge scene ambush - True Lie
• Multiple and over abuse usage of using face masks - Oh, yeah, that was done in MI2.
• Using bungee cord or rope to drop and swing to target landing platform, and at the end of the of the maneuver, cut the rope to land softly. - The Demolition Man
• Performing a self suicide and depending on partner to resurrect - The abyss.
• Over abuse of hand held camera to enhance action. Not as bad as in the The Bourne Supremacy Russian car chase scene, but a close second.
• Agent betrayed by own leadership - The Gauntlet and The Negotiator
• Running with cell phone to get step by step directions. I know this was done in the Matrix, but where else have we seen this? Every single episode of 24? Actually, thass just a guess. I think Jack Bauer has it in his contract that he doesn't have to run
• Bio Hazard (Conveniently and clearly marked) container containing pure death to mankind rolls down busy street and into intersection. - What movie was this done in??? I thought this was a requirement of all bio-terrorist moobies. Now, the carefully, conspicuously labelled part, I dunno. Haven't seen that before. But I have seen a bunch of crappy, hopelessly fragile designs in movies like The Rock.
• Setting up Remote Machine guns and controlling with from safe remote location. This was done somewhat in Alien II, but those were setup for automatic fire on motion. I think it's been done before where they are controlled remotely. Any clue? Nope. Aeon Flux has it, but again they are done with motion sensors. Also Michael Crichton did it in his book, Andromeda Strain (didn't see the moobie).
• Using chemical agents painted on to wall, and then waiting for effect to blow hole in wall. Can't think of any example except Firefly, which no ones know about. But I know it's been done before. Really? They did that? Cool! I certainly haven't seen it before.
  
• Using Lip Reading to bypass closely monitor surveillance. Ah, shoot. Evar wiseguy i the world knows to do that. Thass cheesey.

A great study in how to underuse great characters for the sake of sucking up to Tom Cruise:

• shining praise goes to Phillip Seymoure Hoffman - I love truly evil villains that don't have to ham it up with lots of yelling and hack dialog. His calm, unrelenting demeanor was chilling - even when IMF had kidnapped him, faked his death, and was transporting him to his ultimate incarcaration, everything in his voice and mannerisms said "I've got the upper-hand", and it worked well. Unfortunately, his character was very underused and in the end, just became a pawn for the sake of an inane plot twist.

Dumbest scene of all:

• when cruise thing was trying to electrocute himself while giving his girlfriend a 30 second gun lesson. - Oh, I bought into that. Especially since she turned into a Agent Sidney Bristow and killed two thugs that made Ethanjealous....and he was dead.
  

But lets give kudus where kudos are deserved:

• Morpheus did a great job acting like a Director of Operations
• Drone taking out folks on the bridge scene was excellent. That was one souped up Predator
• Half-Life Troops in helicopter were sick. I crapped my pants just as they stared into the screen. That was an excellent scene and reason to see this movie alone, even though it lasted 2 seconds.