Not at all complicated

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2005)

People always complain about how excessively complex this film is but it ultimately just boils down to a simple betrayal story. People seem for some reason to have particular difficulty with a fantastic scene in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)verbally agrees with someone trying to deceive him as to earlier events in the film, whereas what DePalma presents us with visually are the images going through Hunt's mind as he pieces together how the events actually occurred. Very original, great directing and acting. People moaning about how difficult this film is probably led to the atrocity that is MI2 - all action, and a stupid, dumbed-down plot