Product: Mission: Impossible (1996)
Rating: 2.0
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Mm. Truly a poor and silly film. If you took an episode of the old series and drained out everything that was interesting, and replaced it all with cliches, bad dialogue, flat characters, a boring story, and gimmicky, over-the-top "plot twists" -- you'd have this. There's just nothing remotely good about it -- *except* for the famous scene in which Cruise is suspended in that high-security room trying to retreive -- a disk or something? (It's been a while.) This one scene -- is very good. Crafty, suspenseful, and quite well edited from what I remember. If you decide to rent this movie (god forbid you *buy* it!) -- I would recommend fast-forwarding until you reach this scene, watching it, and then moving on, to spend the remainder of your day or evening in a more productive and enriching fashion. You might want to take a peek at the climax action sequence too, it's fairly original (although WAY over-the-top) and pretty to see.