Awesome...

Rating: Null/10 (21 June 1999)

Mission: Impossible was the second most successful movie of 1996. Although it beat the moderate tornado flick Twister, it lost out to the special-effects display pretending to be a film Independence Day. It should easily have come first. Impossible is one of the most complicated summer movies for a long time, and a lot of people didn't understand it. Even I didn't first time - but I still enjoyed it immensely even though I sat in the cinema wondering exactly what was going on. Director De Palma is far more talented than typical blockbuster directors (i.e. Roland Emmerich) and it shows. The movie has a very mysterious start in the fog-shrouded streets of Prague, and goes on getting more and more tense and exiting until the incredibly cool final climax - and the bit when Cruise leaps onto the helicopter and the music starts- woah...
De Palma is a Hitchcock fan and you can certainly tell by this movie, using Hitchcock's favourite theme of a wrongly-accused man on the run. And it's far more entertaining than any of Alf's movies.