Davian's countdown to ten with Julia at gunpoint
The film opens mid-crisis: Ethan, strapped to a chair, pleads and bargains while Davian counts down over a bound Julia.
Film · 2006
Mission: Impossible III
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.
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Ethan Hunt's Best Moments
Mission: Impossible III
Every Mission: Impossible III moment featuring Ethan Hunt, in story order. Played by Tom Cruise.
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Julia's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible III moment featuring Julia, in story order. Played by Michelle Monaghan.
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Luther's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible III moment featuring Luther, in story order. Played by Ving Rhames.
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Declan's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible III moment featuring Declan, in story order. Played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
8 moments · 38 minby Favseen
Owen Davian's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible III moment featuring Owen Davian, in story order. Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Zhen's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible III moment featuring Zhen, in story order. Played by Maggie Q.
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All moments
25 in story order · 1h 24m
- 01
- 02
Ethan's engagement party and the traffic-patterns cover story
Ethan plays the mild DOT traffic analyst for Julia's family, while her friends retell how the couple met.
- 03
Musgrave's Slurpee-run plea and the disposable-camera mission
Over a convenience-store meeting Musgrave asks Ethan back for a rescue; the briefing then hides in a camera that self-destructs.
- 04
The Berlin factory raid to rescue Lindsey Farris
Ethan's team breaches a guarded factory, wakes the drugged Lindsey and fights their way out to the evac truck.
- 05
Helicopter chase through the wind farm with a charge in Lindsey's head
Pursued by a missile-firing gunship, Ethan races to short out the explosive in Lindsey's skull with a defibrillator.
- 06
Brassel tears into Ethan over the Berlin op
Director Brassel dismantles the operation, swats down Musgrave, and paints Davian as an invisible provider of terror.
- 07
Benji's Anti-God theory of the Rabbit's Foot
Benji rambles through fried hard drives and an Oxford professor's doomsday theory before admitting he has no idea what it is.
- 08
Ethan asks Julia to trust him
At the hospital Ethan says he must leave again; Julia asks what he is hiding and whether they are real.
- 09
The secret hospital-chapel wedding
Ethan leads Julia to the hospital chapel, where they exchange vows on the spot.
- 10
Breaching the Vatican wall
Ethan lays out the plan, the team stages a Roman traffic row as cover, and Ethan climbs the wall and slips into the gala.
- 11
Luther's 23-month rule and Ethan's wedding news
Waiting in the van, Luther warns that a field agent's relationship never lasts; Ethan drops his news.
- 12
The mask switch: Ethan becomes Davian in the Vatican
Zhen spills wine, Ethan forces Davian to read a voice sample, then walks out wearing his face and drives him away.
- 13
Davian's threats on the plane
Interrogated in flight, Davian ignores every question and vows to find and hurt the woman Ethan loves; Ethan nearly drops him.
- 14
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge ambush
Drones and gunships strike the IMF convoy on the bridge, blasting it apart until Davian is lifted away.
- 15
Julia taken: Davian's 48-hour ultimatum
Ethan races through the hospital looking for Julia, then Davian calls with his terms, and IMF agents seize Ethan.
- 16
Brassel and Musgrave lay into Ethan in custody
Brassel lists Ethan's violations with a patriotic flourish, then Musgrave voices his disappointment and sends him to a cell.
- 17
Planning the Shanghai swing
The team maps a near-impossible tower; Ethan proposes swinging from the taller building and base-jumping out.
- 18
The Shanghai skyscraper swing
Declan distracts the rooftop guards, Ethan swings across to the lab tower and goes in while the clock runs down.
- 19
Sliding down the tower and the five-second call
Trapped below the roof, Ethan slides down the glass, escapes in a chase and phones Davian with seconds to spare.
- 20
Musgrave's reveal and his case for a war
The traitor shows his face, explains his deal with Davian and his plan for a military strike, then lets Ethan hear Julia.
- 21
Benji guides Ethan's sprint across Shanghai
Wanted and on the run, Ethan calls a panicked Benji to trace the call and steer him through the city on foot.
- 22
Ethan versus Davian
Davian sets off the charge in Ethan's head and gloats about Julia; the two men fight it out.
- 23
A gun lesson and a request to be killed
Ethan teaches Julia to use a pistol, then asks her to stop his heart to save him.
- 24
Julia fights and brings Ethan back
Alone with Ethan's body, Julia holds off the gunmen and works to restart his heart.
- 25
Ethan finally tells Julia what IMF stands for
Ethan finally tells Julia what he does, and later turns down Brassel's question about staying.