It was followed by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in 2011. It was a commercial success, grossing over $397 million against a $150 million budget.
It received generally positive reviews from critics, who considered it an improvement over its predecessors. Mission: Impossible III premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2006, and was released in the United States on May 5, 2006. However, he is sent back into action to track down the elusive arms dealer Owen Davian In the film, Ethan Hunt has retired from field work for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) and trains new recruits. It is the third installment in the Mission: Impossible film series, following 2000's Mission: Impossible 2. Abrams (in his directorial debut), co-written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and co-produced by and starring Tom Cruise in the role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Mission: Impossible III (stylized as M:i:III) is a 2006 American action spy film co-written and directed by J.