The most Impossible of missions turned out to be the best

Rating: 10/10 (2 October 2007)

Out of all the Mission:Impossible movies,this is my favorite as instead of lots of action like the next two sequels,this one instead is more of a mystery/thriller and has the best plot out of the trilogy as it twists and turns so fast that you wouldn't even know who the main villain is. Tom Cruise stars as IMF Agent Ethan Hunt who after an operation gone wrong,he suddenly finds out he was framed for the murder of his five teammates by a mysterious individual known as Job 3-14(later revealed to be Jim Phelps who is played marvelously by Jon Voight who was the mastermind behind the botched operation and received help from Franz Krieger) but Hunt is instead led to believe it was Eugene Kittridge(played by Henry Czerny) who presumes that Ethan Hunt is the mole as he is the only surviving member of his team. Ethan then learns that Clair Phelps(Emmanuelle Beart)who is/was Jim Phelps' wife also survived the mission and then Ethan begins with correspondence with an individual known as Max which is probably short for Maxine as it is a woman(played by veteran actress Vanessa Redgrave). Max then tells Ethan to get her the Non-Official Cover(NOC) list for her in exchange for the identity of the mole(Jim Phelps) as the list stolen from the US Embassy in Prague was a fake and the real one is in the CIA Headquarters in Langley,Virginia which is outside Washington,D.C and then Ethan would need two people from the Disavowed list. Ethan would recruit Luther Stickell(Ving Rhames) and Claire would recruit Franz Krieger(Jean Reno) who would later be revealed to be assisting Jim Phelps. But besides the great cast of this movie and the complex,brain-teasing script,another great thing about this movie was the plot,stunts,special effects and the director Brian De Palma who directed such movies as Scarface,Carlito's Way and The Untouchables. Great job by everyone involved with this film and it is now one of my immediate favorite spy/action/thriller films.