Tom Cruise blasts back into action as IMF agent Ethan Hunt who, with a little help from old friend Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), must take on a deadly new adversary in the shape of Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman)... This third instalment in the big screen exploits of Mission Impossible is written and directed by J.J. Abrams, personally selected by Tom Cruise following his work on creating series such as Alias and Lost!