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100Enormous fun.
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90Director Brian De Palma is having too much fun zipping around curves and hitting the accelerator to slow down. He's a supremely confident engineer, and if you're game enough to make a jump for it and hold on, he offers the giddy excitement of watching the ground rush by beneath your dangling feet.
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90Exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable.
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80A sleek, whooshingly entertaining update of the vintage television series.
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75The 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.
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75Stylish, brisk but lacking in human dimension despite an attractive cast. [22 May 1996, p. D1]
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75It's a movie of profoundly convoluted pop pleasures. Between dazzling suspense sequences, it invites the audience to work for a good time.
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70All 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.
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63This movie isn't a disaster, but, all things considered, there's little reason to make it a high priority for theatrical viewing.
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60Holes in the script cause the narrative to burp at times.
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50Some of the suspense set-pieces are impressive, but the picture would pack a greater wallop if it were stitched together more tightly and consistently.
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50The result is a gracefully plotted spy film in the classic mode, with just enough self-consciousness to keep things interesting.
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50Whatever the reason for its disappointments, Mission: Impossible is a mission gone awry, prompting you to hope that reruns of its television incarnation will pop up on cable soon.
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30Humorless, charmless and flat.
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30Every effect is so calculated that only the conscious minds of filmmakers and viewers are engaged--and not by very much or for very long.
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25It's the worst kind of convoluted thriller -- it can never unravel satisfactorily because there's nothing simple at its center, just more confusion.
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Brian De Palma's action blockbuster "Mission Impossible" succeeds the impossible job most action movies do; seducing the audience without fear.
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BradB.10
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JaredC.2The movie was exciting and suspenseful, but needed a better adventure.