Mission Impossible 3

Filled with action, intrigue, suspence, and just a little romance, M:I:3 is a perfect way to kick off the summer, or finish off the day. Watching it, you forget that you don't like Tom Cruise, and find yourself worried for the safety of Ethen Hunt, and the completion of his mission.
I have not seen the first two M:I movies, but each is its own story, so you don't need to.
Actually, this is the best movie I've seen in theaters in a year!

X3: the Last Stand

Supposedly the final episode in the X-men series, this movie leaves plenty of room for a sequel. A new director, since the old one went to directing Superman.
This film has many twists and unexpected...Occurrences. (Highlight the following if you've seen the movie, or if you don't mind spoilers): Cyclops is killed by Jean, who comes back as the most powerful mutant ever, with limitless powers. Seriously, did he die in the comic books? Then she kills Professor X, but if you stay until the very end of the credits, you see that he comes back in another body. And the humans invent a "healing" solution, which they can shoot at mutants to make them lose their powers. So by the end of the movie, most mutants who are not theoretically dead, have lost their powers. Mystique loses her power, and Magneto becomes Ian Mac Kellan. (Except at the end, he makes a metal chess piece twitch without touching it.) Rogue gets sore at life, and leaves her boyfriend, "Iceman", falsely thinking he doesn't like her any more. Pyro is more of a jerk than you thought he could be, and Storm was almost cool, except that she had too much screen time. Several new characters are also introduced. (or rather, thrown in your face with hardly a decent introduction.) They include the awesome, furry, and very athletic Beast; the quiet, winged son of the inventor of the "cure", Angel; the unstoppable, perpetually furious Juggernaut; and other random mutants. And there is no Nightcrawler!! And Wolverine is still awesome, as always.
New characters have too little backstory, and not enough character development, and old characters are mostly as awesome as ever. If you can follow about ten different plotlines at once, you're good to go.
But I'm just being overly critical. X3 is no family movie, and not one I'll buy anytime soon, and I think it could have been made better, but other than that it was great!

X2: X Men United

More X men! Cooler action sequences, but that's about it. Storyline was confusing the first time, especially since there was plenty of illusion scenarios.
Still a good movie, just not as good as its predecessor.
Rogue is better; more mature, and all that. Storm still gets on my nerves. The bad guys have to collaborate with the good guys a little, which turns out to be really cool.
Can Wolverine even die? Apparently getting both shot in the forehead and stabbed multiple times through the heart is insufficient.
Oh, and Magneto has the most awesome jailbreak scene.
And, of course, there's Nightcrawler, the German, Catholic Mutant, with cool teleporting abilities, making an awesome opening fight scene.

We Were Soldiers

Mel Gibson stars in this true story about a battle in the Vietnam war. It is filled with all the sadness and brutality any good, steriotypical war movie should have. I saw it on TV, so it was littered with commercial breaks, ads on the bottom of the screen and a slightly fuzzy picture, but the sound was good, and the effect was almost perfect. I got the impression that there was a little gore and language edited out, but I guess that is why it's rated R...
About a third of the movie focuses on the wives of the soldiers being nervous, and taking on the postman's job of telling the bad news to other wives whose husbands have been killed in combat.
A terrific war movie.