Plot: Impossible

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2000)

"Your Mission, reader, should you care to accept is, is to follow the plot of the movie 'Mission: Impossible'. Of course, if you fail, you will be forced to join the ranks of hundreds of thousands of other hapless and confused movie-goers..."
If you, the leery movie rental connoisseur, feel you may fail at the above described mission, then be comforted by the old phrase, "If at first you don't succeed...' oh you know the rest. My point being, the main point of interest of this movie is the carefully woven plot.
If you're not a plot kinda' person, than perhaps you should skip this movie. About all it's good for are a bunch of scenes featuring Tom Cruise with that mid-90's appeal. If you're not a plot kinda' person but ARE a computer junkie (such as myself) then this movie will be more fun than watching a 1970's ESD training video put out by IBM (and that IS funny). References to the `686 with RISC AI chip' and the sight of the 230 meg floptical disk will surely please the geek in you.
But seriously, despite what the confused masses say about this film, the plot IS good.... if you can manage to follow it. Watch it once for the action and now pale CGI scenes (if that's what they are) and watch it again for the plot. It's rather satisfying when you finally figure out who's accusing who of what, who's on who's side, and who in the movie is actually more confused than the audience.
All in all, `Mission: Impossible' is a good movie and is worth a watch or two. Give it a watch or two and if you're still confused, `all knowledge of you and your mission will be officially disavowed'