The Noc List

Rating: 7/10 (11 February 2010)

***SPOILERS*** Action packed movie version of the popular 1960's and 70's TV series that has almost the entire "Mission Impossible" team including its top man Jim Phelps, Jon Voight, wiped out within the first twenty minutes of the film.
Surviving the carnage Agent Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise, is suspected by his boss Eugene Kittridge, Henry Czerny, in the CIA to be the mole that they suspected infiltrated the Mission Impossible team. It's Kittridge suspicions that Hunt is working for the mysterious arms dealer Mr. Max, who's actually a Mrs, in trying to obtain the NOC List, a list of every CIA Agent in Eastern and Western Europe, for him at the price of a cool 10 million in non negotiable US Government Bonds. We of course know, since he's the star of the film, that Hunt is innocent of all charges but it's up to him to prove it before he ends up getting whacked a a team of CIA assassins!
As things turn out Hunt soon realizes that he's in fact being used as bait to bring the real mole out into the open by the clever and anything goes, in finding him, Kittridge. The real NOC List is actually stored in the CIA headquarters computer data base in Langly Virginia. It's Hunt's plan to seal the list and use it as leverage against Kittridge to not only get his dogs, CIA hit-teams, off his back but have both his mom and uncle, (Laura Brock & Morgan Deare), who were framed by Kittridge as being international drug dealers, out of police custody back in the states!
***SPOILER ALERT*** Hard to follow at first with the many side plots in it the movie really takes off when Hunt starts to put all the loose ends together and realizes who this mole, code name Job, really is. Playing along with the traitor, to the US as well as Hunt and his fellow agents, Hunt soon finds out that the remaining member of his Mission Impossibe team, who was thought to have be killed in a car explosion, is the mole's back up man or woman in throwing him as well as Kittridge off his trail! This has Max, who thought he was on top of things, misjudge the plan that Hunt had in store for both of them: Max and the Mole codename Job!
Tremendous action sequence with Hunt having it out with Job on a bullet train racing from France to England under the Trans-Channel Tunnel at speeds of over 150 MPH. While all this action is going on Job's partner in crime is running interference for him on a helicopter accidentally, by Hunt, attached to the bullet train! The ending has to be seen to be believed with Hunt on the verge of being sliced to ribbons, by the helicopter propellers, turning the tables on Job and his partner, the helicopter pilot, by sticking it to them with a stick of chewing gum that wasn't made to be chewed! But to explode!