Mission: Impossible - Film Review
Time for another marathon!
Mission: Impossible is directed by Brian De Palma and stars Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave, Henry Czerny, and Jean Reno.
Plot
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the truth.
Review
I'm seeing Mission: Impossible - Fallout in a few days so I figured I would marathon all of the Mission: Impossible movies. This is actually my first time watching all of these movies, and from what I've heard, I was excited to go in this series, and this movie didn't disappoint. It's got some amazing scenes in it.
The best scene in the movie to me is when Ethan is hanging from the ceiling to get data from a computer and it's just great. The scene with Ethan vs Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) on the train with Krieger (Jean Reno) in the helicopter is great too. Pretty much all of the action in here is great.
The plot is actually kinda hard to follow in here, but you actually have to pay attention to the movie, which is a good thing if a movie makes you pay attention.
One of the cheesiest things in the movie is how the Internet was portrayed. In the 1990's, the Internet was pretty new, so pretty much every action movie from this era portrays the Internet very unlike how it actually was, like computers don't beep in real life.
Also, explosive gum is awesome.
Let's talk about the characters. Tom Cruise is great as Ethan Hunt, and I'm sure he's just as great throughout the series. In the beginning, he's part of IMF on a mission in Prague, only for everyone but him to die. He later learns the truth that the leader of IMF, Jim Phelps, betrayed them and set this up. They were good friends, but became enemies. Phelps framed him to be the mole in Prague when he has everyone killed. Also, he never fires a gun once throughout the movie. I thought that was a nice little thing to notice.
Jon Voight is pretty good as Jim Phelps, the main villain of the movie, and the only character from the TV show to be in here, who was the leader of IMF, but is replaced by Ethan after it comes out that he betrayed them in Prague, faked his death, and sold secrets to an arms dealer. He dies for real when he, and a helicopter being controlled by Krieger, are blown up by Ethan's exploding gum.
Emmanuelle Béart isn't bad as Claire Phelps, Jim's wife. She works with Ethan to bring down the traitor, only for it to be Jim, who kills her.
Ving Rhames is really good here as Luther. He was one of two disavowed IMF agents Ethan hired after his team died. He is the hacker of this group, and while reluctant to do so, Ethan convinces him by playing with his ego y calling this "the Mount Everest of hacks", and now works with them.
Vanessa Redgrave isn't bad as Max, the arms dealer who made a deal with Jim so she can share they're secrets to other terrorist organizations. She makes a deal with Ethan after she receives a fake disk for him to make some money and meet someone named "Job". But she gets arrested at the end.
Henry Czerny is pretty good as Eugene Kittridge, a former director of IMF. After the incident in Prague, he meets Ethan in a restaurant, but Ethan escapes and Kittridge handles the CIA. Ethan thinks Kittridge is the mole, but he's not. They tracked Ethan to a train where Jim and Krieger are killed, and arrests Max.
Jean Reno is good as Franz Krieger, the other disavowed IMF agent who Ethan hires, but who pretends to work with Ethan but is actually working with Jim, and then he dies by gum to helicopter.
Overall, I quite liked Mission: Impossible, it's a pretty entertaining action movie. I will give Mission: Impossible an 8.5/10.
Come back tomorrow for a review of Mission: Impossible 2, kinda dreading that one, haven't heard too many great things.
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