Mission: Impossible (1996)

Let me start this review off by saying that I have never seen any of the two versions of the Mission: Impossible television shows, I am solely starting watching this entire trilogy from the beginning. I have been resisting this trilogy for a while, as I am not the biggest Tom Cruise fan, to say the least. But then I saw the trailer for the upcoming fourth movie in the series, and I gave up. The next day, I rented all three movies, and will be watching them pretty close to each other. But watching things in order is important, so I watched the 1996 Mission: Impossible first. To begin, I have to say that-I was wrong about Tom Cruise. He was actually pretty likeable in this movie. All the people were actually pretty likeable. And that is what a film like this needs to work. For most of the film, I was thinking of the 2001 remake of Ocean’s Eleven, which also had some very likeable characters. And that film works. But where Ocean’s Eleven works where Mission: Impossible doesn’t is being the plotline. The plot of this movie is so insanely convoluted; I could not understand a single thing. I got a slight outline of what was happening so that I could possibly understand on what was happening. Later, I looked up the plotline on Wikipedia to help myself out. Basically, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is accused of murdering his team, and he has to figure out who actually killed them to clear his name. And the film is then sprinkled with action scenes that are actually pretty impressive. The longer the film got on, the better it got. At the beginning of the film, it was such a mess I didn’t really enjoy it. In the middle, it started to get better, and I was warming up, and at the end, which has one of the best action sequences I’ve seen in a good while, I was cheering in my head. The film probably doesn’t deserve this, but the ending is just so amazing, I have to give this-
7.5

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