Factual error: When Tom Cruise is going to defibrillate Keri Russell to disarm the bomb in her head, no defibrillator takes 30 seconds to charge to 150 joules. Most go to 360 joules and if they are not charged in 10 seconds the batteries are depleted enough that they won't charge at all.
Mission: Impossible 3 (2006)
Ending / spoiler
Davian gets run over by a truck while fighting against Ethan after the charge was activated in Ethan's head.He Tells Julia to electracute him to deactivate the charge and she did.Then Julia (equiped with a gun Ethan gave her) shoots an armed man who came in to investigate. Then she kills John (Billy Crudup)who was working with Davian. After he fell, a suitcase opened up revealing the "Rabbit's Foot". Julia brings Ethan back to life by doing CPR and pounding his chest with her fist. She asks him why are they in China, he tells her that he works for IMF. At the agency, Brassell (Laurence Fishburne)tells him that the White House has a job for Ethan. When Ethan asks what the rabbit's foot is, Brassell will tell him if he stayed. Ethan tells him he's going on his honeymoon with Julia and they did
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Trivia: One of the reasons why they chose the HK G36 as the rifle Ethan uses in the bridge scene is because it made the scene with Ethan throwing the rifle over the hole blown in the bridge possible in the real world. The G36 is maybe the only rifle in the world that is purposely designed to endure a 2m fall without misfiring. Any other rifle would have ejected its magazine if dropped.
Question: What is the Rabbit Foot? It was never really explained in the movie or did I miss something?
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Answer: It's never explained. This is what's known in the film industry as a McGuffin, a term popularised by Alfred Hitchcock, which is an item that's crucial to the plot, but the exact nature of which is never revealed because it actually doesn't matter in the slightest.
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