Mission: Impossible III
“The mission begins.”
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.
How Mission: Impossible III compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Mission: Impossible, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #7 of 8
- Rank in the series by rating
- 6 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 12%
- Share of the series audience
Mission: Impossible III (2006) ranks 7th of the 8 rated films in the Mission: Impossible series, at 6.8/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.1/10.
It arrived 6 years after Mission: Impossible II (2000).
Its 7,841 TMDB ratings are 12% of the 64,718 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Mission: Impossible, comparing all 8 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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