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Mission: Impossible III

2006 · directed by J.J. Abrams · 126 min
22,514 feet · Prominence
1,966th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw73

Lifetime worldwide gross $398m, re-releases included; about $652m in 2026 money.

Rank412 of 11,051In 20068 of 303

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise70

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics70 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy35

Judged directly: Solid franchise entry, modest imprint.

Verdict35 of 100IMDb6.9 from 424kWikipedia47k views a monthAge20 years

Scored beside it · 2,076 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 73 praise 70 legacy 35averages 59, placing it at22,514 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Francesco De Vito

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tom Cruise20,177 ftPhilip Seymour Hoffman19,601 ftMichelle Monaghan18,566 ftBilly Crudup18,462 ftVing Rhames18,459 ftKeri Russell18,223 ftJonathan Rhys Meyers18,105 ftFrancesco De Vito17,677 ftLaurence Fishburne17,661 ftSimon Pegg17,661 ftAaron Paul17,650 ftEddie Marsan17,648 ftPaolo Bonacelli17,635 ft