Mission Impossible (DVD)

This was the Sunday afternoon movie on ITV today and I bet I was not the only person vegging out in front of the TV watching it for probably the fifth or sixth time. It is no that it is a great movie but having the eye candy of Mr Cruise at his twinkle eye best does help a bit, it also stars John Voight and Emmanual Beart so my boyfriend was quite happy with the latters inclusion. In the film Cruise taes on the role of Ethan Hawke who heads a team who carry out counter espionage missions for a governemnt agency, if anything goes wrong on the mission then they all understand that they are on their own and the government will deny their existence. When a mission ...  Read the complete review

Hollywood has tried unsuccessfully to make numerous James Bond style movies and failed. Failed because Bond movies are essentially crap(don't argue, you know it's true) as well but they work because the debonair Englishman has been taken to so many people's hearts and we're all able to forgive them as being Bond movies and therefore above the usual criticism. "xXx" is the most recent attempt to give the US an American James Bond in the form of extreme sports thrill-seeker Xander Cage(played by Vin Diesel) but before then came Mission Impossible, a blockbuster adaptation of the rather more entertaining 60s TV show of the same name, which gave us ...  Read the complete review

***Mission Impossible (1996)*** We just felt in the mood for an older movie, but an excellent film all the same to watch as a family, as pickings are a bit slim at the moment. My children picked it for us to watch as a family. ***What's it all about?*** Of course the film is based upon the same set up used in the television series of the same name. Having said this, I have not watched any of the original series as this was before my time. The film is a secret agent movie, with a group of agents given the task of going to Prague to stop a top secret list of agents, passing into the hands of traitors. The group are told to ...  Read the complete review

Mission: Impossible was an extremely popular TV series that featured a select team of top agents who were given missions to perform that were seemingly impossible. It involved gadgets, daredevil stunts and some charismatic and impressive characters. Much of it drew its potential from the Cold War in determining its plots, and the feature film that was released in 1996 was long awaited and a much lauded affair. The film features a group of agents as they are given their mission. Headed by Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) the team quickly find corruption at the beginning of the film as they are double-crossed and casualties start falling. The paranoia stakes rise as the ...  Read the complete review

It seems from everyone who says a negative comment about this film it is that the plot is overcomplex and impossible to understand. However this is the exact reason I love this film. Everytime I watch it, I discover sometimes new and have seen it three times over the last ten years. Each time its been as great as before. This is a thrilling film that takes the viewer on a ride from the work go and doesn't let go till the final sequence. I am not the biggest fan of the sequels but this film was perfect. Perfect cast, action and plot. The vault scene is awesome and even now it is being copied with Prison Break making an attempt to do a very very similar style ...  Read the complete review