Six years after the mixed(but generally panned) MI2, J.J. Abrams takes a whack at the Ethan Hunt story. Was it a good change or does it self-destruct in five seconds?

• Director: J.J. Abrams
• Producer: Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
• Screenwriter: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams
• Distributor: Paramount Pictures
• Production Co: Cruise-Wagner Productions, Paramount Pictures
• Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Action, Adventure
• Release Date (Theaters): May 5, 2006
• Budget: $150,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada: $134,029,801
• Gross worldwide: $398,479,497
• Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne