Medical Errors in Mission Impossible 3

Claire, my sister Susie, her boyfriend Andrew and I all went to see Mission Impossible 3 a few days ago. My take on the flick? Good actions sequences plus one of the greatest theme songs of all time and all-in-all probably worth seeing. The major drawback, however, was the complete ridiculousness of the medical explanations they included. Some of the problems are listed below:

#1: when Tom Cruise comes in to rescue the character played by Keri Russell who has been tortured to within an inch of her life, he gives her an intramuscular injection of adrenaline, resulting in a miraculous recovery. A few minutes later she's doing somersaults and blowing away bad dudes. Adrenaline is really only indicated for a few medical conditions--for example, a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting, or if you're in cardiac arrest--neither of which seemed to be the case with poor Keri, as bad as she looked. It's not like giving yourself an adrenaline shot will give you super-strength, like it does in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game.

#2: when Keri gets a metallic implant shot up her nose and into her brain, Tom Cruise tries to short out its circuitry by performing cardiac defibrillation. Okay, I'll buy the basic premise, but the cardiac defibrillator on their escape helicopter takes a full 30 seconds to charge, and she dies while waiting for this. Talk about a crappy defibrillator! It should take 2-3 seconds, max. Are you telling me that the same secret organization that can afford to routinely blow up deluxe Italian sports cars can't even spring for a decent defibrillator?

#3: at the end when Tom Cruise electrocutes himself on purpose, he's apparently gone into cardiac arrest. He must, since his wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) is a nurse and starts doing CPR. He must be done for at least, like 5 minutes, which is not a trivial amount of time. However, after she performs a precordial thump which revives him, he sits bolt upright and a few minutes later is seen relaxedly walking through the streets of Shanghai. The recovery is far too rapid; if you're heart stops beating for 5 minutes you would have a profound acidosis and a strong possibility of hypoxic brain injury which may or may not recover.

Don't they get a medical consultant for this kind of stuff? Hell, I'd be willing to do it for free!