Product: Mission: Impossible (1996)
Rating: 5.0
one of the best action films I've ever seen
...and I've seen a lot of them.What is so great about this film - beyond the acting - is how complex and multi-layered the story is. You have to see it multiple times to get everything, such as Cruise's realization while looking in the Gideon Bible from Palmer House in Chicago, and you (or at least I) never get tired of seeing it again. This is because the story is so dense with detail and so perfectly executed. Thru it all, Cruise pulls it off as a totally believable actor, on a par with Sean Connery in the early Bond films. (For anyone with a taste for the authentic, their enjoyment of Bond simply could not tolerate the corniness of Roger Moore - that is the level of Cruise's performance in this one.)Warmly recommended for connoissuer's of the action genre. You can hardly do better than this one, with the exceoption of the early Bond or Matt Damon in Bourne.