This missions plot would have been more appropriate for a sequel.

Rating: 6/10 (19 March 2010)

I went to see this one in the theaters and I have to say while it was not a boring movie, it was rather disappointing. I was expecting more action and such as all the trailers showed that scene with the exploding helicopter that sends Tom Cruise's character flying, however scenes like that are few and far between in this movie. The plot was a bit much too. We are just being introduced to Mission Impossible on the big screen and their first assignment and their first team meet with failure and the lead guy, Ethan Hunt, is suspected of being a traitor of some sort. Meanwhile, Jim Phelps is missing or something, some strange computer heist is having to be pulled off with a new team and for some reason one of the members of this new team ends up being a bad guy piloting the helicopter at the end. Like I said seems more like a sequel plot to me, I much would rather have seen a more straight forward mission that was pulled off successfully first than the bungled mess that was the first caper depicted in this one. I was also disappointed by the fact Emilio Estevez was in this film and quickly removed as he could have added some good humor to this one. This film also suffers from the same problem all the Mission Impossible movies suffer from, the fact that none of them are particularly memorable. This one I remember certain scenes all right and the basic plot and the strange English woman, but a lot of the movie is kind of hazy to me as well. Though the second one of the series suffers from this problem the most.