{"id":28018,"date":"2025-06-27T21:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28018"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:11:27","slug":"film-review-mi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28018","title":{"rendered":"FiLM REViEW: MI-3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"706\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_9064-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28019\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_9064-1.jpg 706w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_9064-1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Starz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/stars_00_zero-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28020\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/stars_00_zero-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/stars_00_zero-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After watching <em>Warfare<\/em> a second time, and still enjoying it. Another film was requested, by Teresa (she hadn\u2019t watched <em>Warfare<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After much confusion we wound up trying <em>MI3<\/em>. Teresa promptly fell asleep. I wasn\u2019t even watching it. And our guest, Patrick, regaled me with how much he dislikes J. J. Abrams, the director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I wasn\u2019t watching it, and had already had my fill of televisual thrills n\u2019 entertainment, I very happily switched off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fairness to the film, this is hardly a review, really. It\u2019s just a space-filling opportunity to say I\u2019m <em>totally uninterested<\/em>. I could see and hear much gunfire, glass-breaking and explosions. But I simply wasn\u2019t drawn in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn\u2019t have cared less. So it\u2019s off to bed, to continue reading <em>The Price of Victory<\/em>. Spend my precious time on something worthy of attention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starz After watching Warfare a second time, and still enjoying it. Another film was requested, by Teresa (she hadn\u2019t watched Warfare). After much confusion we wound up trying MI3. Teresa promptly fell asleep. I wasn\u2019t even watching it. And our guest, Patrick, regaled me with how much he dislikes J. J. Abrams, the director. Since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FiLM REViEW: MI-3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7hU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28022,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28018\/revisions\/28022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}