Cruising Around

Rating: Null/10 (13 June 2006)

Twisted, confusing and action packed. This film makes you think that you're playing chess, with all the action of a James Bond film. Its Mission Impossible! While this film has an amazing array of gadgets, girls and gizmos it also adds to its reputation with its amazing death-defying stunts, and pyrotechnics that make you grab your seat. This is definitely the film of the year, without a doubt.
The film starts off with a scene, seen through a camera in black and white, with a police officer interrogating a suspect. This scene is in another language, that instantly throws us off thinking that this is the enemy, but after the interrogation the man walks up to the door and peels off a rubber mask, and behold the glory that is, the action hero himself, Tom Cruise.
Brian De Palma (director of The Untouchables, Scarface) directs Mission Impossible, giving us action, great explosions, close calls and intense scenes immediately after the starting credits.
The director aims a small story at the start to lead up to the rest of the film, starting with a mission where all goes well until a few close calls with the target, and then it all goes wrong.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), Jim (Jon Voight), Clair (Emmanuelle Bèart) and Jack infiltrate a party looking for their suspect who has the first half of the "NOC" list, a list of all the names of agents around the world. The "NOC" list is in two halves, the first half is held by the suspect and that contains all of the agents codenames, and the second disk contains the code names changed to real names, so both disks are needed.
In the starting mission scene Tom Cruise is no-where in sight, until the early scene where he takes off his mask showing his disguise as an old man.
There were many factors about this film which make it so amazing and so exciting. One of them is the rubber masks Tom Cruise keeps appearing from behind. These are definitely going to become a small famous thing to be related with Mission Impossible because it makes Mission Impossible "Mission Impossible".
The life-threatening situations are dotted all over the place in Mission Impossible, making you really think about the situation.
When I first watched Mission Impossible I thought I had everything sorted out and knew who was on who's side, but then when everything comes together it takes you a while to think it over an then you start appreciating the complexity of it all.
Cruise is his usual self in this film as he is in all if his films, outstanding stunts and action, and soggy, floppy romance. Tom Cruise is meant only for action, when it comes down to romance, he just doesn't make it.
So, all in all, wow. This is definitely one for the collections!