Mission Impossible

China may ban Mission: Impossible 3 because it implies that Shanghai police may not be the world's finest thief-catchers. The film contains one scene in which Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise, jumps over the top of the Bank of China Tower in Shanghai. The Beijing Times, who along with other media feel the film will either be banned or at least heavily censored, stated: "Chinese viewers will have trouble accepting this plot of foreign criminal elements fighting publicly in Shanghai." Another commentator added that the scenery was cliché, saying: "In the Shanghai scenes all the roofs and alleys have ragged clothes hanging from bamboo sticks."