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Mission Impossible
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by Etd
Sales Rank: 98904
Price: $9.98
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A flashy, splashy summer-movie blockbuster that's fun and exciting without being mindless? That's the impossible mission accomplished by director Brian De Palma, star-coproducer Tom Cruise, and the crack team of <I>Mission: Impossible</I>. Based on the '60s TV show and an almost impenetrably complex (but nonetheless thrilling) original story by David Koepp (<I>Jurassic Park</I>) and Steven Zaillian (<I>Schindler's List</I>), with a screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne (<I>Chinatown</I>, <I>Shampoo</I>), <I>Mission: Impossible</I> begins with veteran agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his expert crew embarking on a mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But nothing is what it seems. The nail-biting set piece--always a signature of director De Palma (<I>Carrie</I>, <I>The Untouchables</I>)--in which Cruise is lowered from the ceiling to retrieve information from a computer in a high-security vault--is an instant classic. But perhaps even more impressive, at least in retrospect, is a flashback sequence in which two characters attempt to reconstruct a series of events from multiple points of view. It's pretty daring and sophisticated stuff for a big-budget spy movie, but brains were always what put the <I>Mission: Impossible</I> team ahead of the competition, anyway, no? <I>--Jim Emerson</I>
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I had a VHS version before, but this one comes with some extra features. I am very satisfied.
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