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Mission: Impossible
Jim Phelps and his team are set the task of recovering a stolen disc containing the identities of IMF's Secret Agents ('IMF' is Impossible Mission Force).
After a botched attempt at recovery, Phelps and his team are ambushed by another team and only two survivors remain, Frontman Ethan Hunt and Phelps' Wife, Claire.
There was evidence that a mole was part of the team and IMF immediately declare Mission Frontman Ethan as the mole and make him #1 on their hitlist.
Ethan and Claire must do everthing they can...
... to discover the true identity of the traitor, clear their names and recover the disc that could finish off IMF forever.
Keeping relatively true to the original series, MI gives the audience an almost perfect reboot of the franchise.
Brian De Palma's direction is absolutely fantastic and the overall writing, though with the odd controversial rewritten character, is absolutely bang on the money.
The plot is relatively complex, when I first watched, I was about 14 years old and was completely lost, but it's still a rip roaring spy movie in terms of actual storytelling. Which is something that most action spy movies are lacking to be honest.
The action is also brilliant. It starts out relatively small and gets progressively larger as the movie goes on... until the climax in which one the most exciting scenes in movie history takes place.
It's also wonderfully choreographed.
The acting is also great.
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is the perfect Secret Agent. He's handsome, smart and knows how to give a bad guy a run for his money.
Jon Voight as Jim Phelps was, and still is, controversial. His character was rewritten by the filmmakers, but it actually adds to the tension and emotion of the movie and Voight is fantastic.
Emmanuelle Beart as Claire Phelps is a mark of genius. She's beautiful, naive and still has an air of intelligence about her. Her acting is spot on too.
Backed up by an ensemble cast of Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Estevez and Henry Czerny.
All in all, not the best of the MI movies, but certainly a benchmark for the series. Very well written in terms of story and plot... and the action, though not as explosive as many fans would like, is still exciting especially when that MI music gets going.
My rating 89%
Jim Phelps and his team are set the task of recovering a stolen disc containing the identities of IMF's Secret Agents ('IMF' is Impossible Mission Force).
After a botched attempt at recovery, Phelps and his team are ambushed by another team and only two survivors remain, Frontman Ethan Hunt and Phelps' Wife, Claire.
There was evidence that a mole was part of the team and IMF immediately declare Mission Frontman Ethan as the mole and make him #1 on their hitlist.
Ethan and Claire must do everthing they can...
... to discover the true identity of the traitor, clear their names and recover the disc that could finish off IMF forever.
Keeping relatively true to the original series, MI gives the audience an almost perfect reboot of the franchise.
Brian De Palma's direction is absolutely fantastic and the overall writing, though with the odd controversial rewritten character, is absolutely bang on the money.
The plot is relatively complex, when I first watched, I was about 14 years old and was completely lost, but it's still a rip roaring spy movie in terms of actual storytelling. Which is something that most action spy movies are lacking to be honest.
The action is also brilliant. It starts out relatively small and gets progressively larger as the movie goes on... until the climax in which one the most exciting scenes in movie history takes place.
It's also wonderfully choreographed.
The acting is also great.
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is the perfect Secret Agent. He's handsome, smart and knows how to give a bad guy a run for his money.
Jon Voight as Jim Phelps was, and still is, controversial. His character was rewritten by the filmmakers, but it actually adds to the tension and emotion of the movie and Voight is fantastic.
Emmanuelle Beart as Claire Phelps is a mark of genius. She's beautiful, naive and still has an air of intelligence about her. Her acting is spot on too.
Backed up by an ensemble cast of Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Estevez and Henry Czerny.
All in all, not the best of the MI movies, but certainly a benchmark for the series. Very well written in terms of story and plot... and the action, though not as explosive as many fans would like, is still exciting especially when that MI music gets going.
My rating 89%
