Product: Mission: Impossible (1996)
Rating: 4.0
"Mission" Accepted
"I understand your very upset.""Kittridge, you've never seen me very upset.""All right Hunt. Enough is enough. You have bribed, cajoled, & killed & you have done it using loyalties on the inside. You want to shake hands with the devil, thats fine with me. I just want to make sure that you do it in hell."- IMF Director, Eugene Kittridge informs former team pointman Ethan Hunt he's no angel in "Mission: Impossible"Based on the popular 60's series, Brian DePalma directs & Tom Cruise stars in the big screen adaption that is "Mission: Impossible".The mission starts out with Jim Phelps (who else), & his IMF team, accepting a mission to trail & stop a traitor, Alexander Golitsyn, for stealing & selling classified material. The pointman on the mission is Ethan Hunt, With Phelps' wife Claire, Hannah Williams, Jack Harmon, & Sarah Davies rounding out the team.Things go to hell when Jack is "accidently" killed in an access elevator, Golitsyn is mysteriously killed & Phelps is stabbed to death enroute to the safe house. Hunt tries to stay in contact with the other members of his team only to hear them meet their demise one by one.With Hunt the only team member left alive, he calls for back up only to have IMF Director Kittridge brand him a traitor & is promptly under arrest.After narrowly escaping incarceration, Ethan, now a disavowed agent on the run, has to piece together who set him up & try to clear his name.What's worse, whoever set Hunt up has a meeting with a big time smuggler named Max who is interested in the IMF NOC list, the item that Golitsyn stole. This list has every name and personal I.D. of all agents operating in foreign countries. Smelling a double-cross Ethan has a meeting with Max & posing as the seller informs her that he can get his hands on the real NOC list. Ethan hopes that these turn of events will bring the real IMF traitor out into the open, clearing him of all charges."Mission: Impossible" is a film that grew on me. I didn't really think it was that great of a film when I first saw it, until I actually figured out the confusing as all hell plotline. Once the plot clicked with me, I liked the film even more. I wish a lot of other spy films followed "Mission"'s lead.