MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
[Spoilers]
A film review by Pete Nelson
Copyright 1996 Pete Nelson
Note: There will be some spoilers in here.
I have a few points to make about this movie. First of all, it's not an action movie. About 90% of the good action sequences in the movie you've already seen - in the commercials and the previews. The only major action sequence is the helicopter scene in the tunnel, and that's at the end of the movie. So, if you're looking for a good action movie, save your dough.
Second, the casting is a bit odd too. Ving Rhames (Marsellus Wallace from Pulp Fiction) plays a hacker. While he's not a bad actor, it's very hard to picture big, burly tough-guys as hackers. Also, Emilio Estevez seems like a promising character, but he is killed off in the first fifteen minutes of the movie.
Finally, at the end of the movie, I still wasn't sure who the good guys were and who the bad guys were. Either the plot-web was too tangled or I'm just not very good at figuring these things out.
A couple pieces of trivia I saw in the movie: While it's never used, Ethan Hunt's (Tom Cruise) alias is Phillip Douchette. Also, John Voight's character gives away the location of Ethan to the people looking for him. He's going to be on a train. You can see the word "Voit" on the train ticket. May mean something else, but it's an odd coincidence.
To sum up, if you like a good spy-type mystery, you'll probably like this. If you're looking for a great action movie, go see Twister.
Scale: As my friend said when we left, "A five with an occasional eight."
Pete Nelson (weasel@ecis.com) <http://www.ecis.com/~weasel>
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