Product: Mission: Impossible (1996)
Rating: 2.0
A Maze Of Confusion: Who Was The Target Audience?
To figure out "Mission Impossible" after just one or a few viewings is truly an impossible mission. The plot involves more questions than answers and seems to resemble a bus leaving a stop with the dumbfounded passengers-to-be left at the stop confused at why the bus just kept on going. This action flick started out with a straight-forward-cliche-spy-mission to retrieve a certain bit of information. The mission appeared to be a failure. Things got ugly in a hurry. That was when the bus left(so to speak) and the confusion began. The way it ended still has me baffled. The action sequence at the end is laughable. Trust me, it is beyond believable. Seeing is not believing in this movie. There are certain instances in "Mission Impossible" when characters show up with no explanation of how they actually got there. They are just there.(See it, and you will understand that further) "Mission Impossible" had a very original scene involving a different way of portraying the thinking of a character at a particular time.(I won't spoil it. That was great) So, if you solved "Mission Impossible" during or after the first viewing you are truly and I mean truly a genius. The attention to detail it would take to understand this movie is just incredible. Who was the target audience? The CIA?