Mission: Impossible Critic Reviews
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Exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable.Read the full review
A sleek, whooshingly entertaining update of the vintage television series.Read the full review
Stylish, brisk but lacking in human dimension despite an attractive cast. [22 May 1996, p. D1]Read the full review
The bottom line on a film like this is, Tom Cruise looks cool and holds our attention while doing neat things that we don't quite understand--doing them so quickly and with so much style that we put our questions on hold, and go with the flow.Read the full review
It's a movie of profoundly convoluted pop pleasures. Between dazzling suspense sequences, it invites the audience to work for a good time.Read the full review
All Mission Impossible had to do was not self-destruct. Mission accomplished. Does it ignite? Not really, but Tom Cruise's first adventure as a producer has just enough hightech firepower, old-fashioned star power and a director who knows how to harness it all.Read the full review
This movie isn't a disaster, but, all things considered, there's little reason to make it a high priority for theatrical viewing.Read the full review
Humorless, charmless and flat.Read the full review
It's the worst kind of convoluted thriller -- it can never unravel satisfactorily because there's nothing simple at its center, just more confusion.Read the full review
