An interesting but slow mission.

Rating: 5/10 (1 April 2016)

Part One in the Mission Impossible trilogy is a steady-paced action movie with lots of talking. There is really no action in the story until a good three quarters in the movie, where Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) goes on his impossible mission in a high-security computer room at CIA Headquarters to copy a top secret coverts agents list. That scene was an edge-of-your-seat experience.
Much of the movie relied on the dialog, suspense and drama surrounding the Impossible Mission Force's (IMF) suspicion of Hunt's disloyalty to the organization and his mission in exposing the real spy and preventing the theft of classified material.
As mentioned above, the mission scene was an exciting one, but much of the plot suffers from a slow pace and somewhat mediocre acting (literally with every character), which doesn't help in making the movie more suspenseful or intriguing. It's really a lot of all-talk and no action.
The overall story is interesting and there are some plot twists and unpredictable moments. However, some more action and better acting would have been better.
Grade C-