I’m a fairly bright guy. I pick things up quick and enjoy solving difficult problems. I’m moderately athletic. Played football in high school. Enjoy pretty much anything competitive. That sort of thing.

So you know what I’m thinking when I see a movie like MI3? I’m thinking that they made this movie for guys just like me. Guys who really go to see such movies because in the back of our heads we’re thinking, “If I trained all day, every day to do shit like this I think I could be just as good at it as anyone else could.”

So I like movies where the protagonist gets to use cool pieces of shinny metal with red blinky lights. You know, those things that do whatever needs to be done so that the writer can put the actor in a few impossible situations and seemingly have them saying to themselves, “Boy, I’m sure glad that I have a M13-a laser thingy in my pocket or I’d really be screwed right now.” And of course there has to be a few MacGyver moments here and there. Those are all cool things to have early in the movie but they always get used up by the time the hero meets the villain. And usually the bullets are all used up to. So now the writer can have the actors say really cool things to each other before they go bare-knuckled against each other. You know, the things we wish we could say to your boss on the last day of work. (Just kidding, I like my boss. But I’m not so sure about the company sometimes.)

So that may look like Ethan Hunt/Bourne/Bond who ever. But that’s really me if I had done whatever these guys did after high school instead of goofing off in college for a few years studying mathematics and then diverting to Space Camp and then, blah, blah, blah.