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The most dour, sexless piece of escapism in memory.

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Humorless, charmless and flat.

-Hal HinsonFull Review

This movie isn't a disaster, but, all things considered, there's little reason to make it a high priority for theatrical viewing.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

Exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable.

-Desson ThomsonFull Review

Every effect is so calculated that only the conscious minds of filmmakers and viewers are engaged--and not by very much or for very long.

-Jonathan RosenbaumFull 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.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

A sleek, stunningly made movie.

-Charles TaylorFull Review

Stylish, brisk but lacking in human dimension.

-Mike Clark

A sleek, whooshingly entertaining update of the vintage television series.

-Stephen HoldenFull Review

Too devious for its own good.

-Sean Means

A fun and diverting summer movie, well worth the price of admission.

-Keith Simanton

An infinite trailer that is all effects, no affect.

-Richard Schickel

Tom Cruise looks cool and holds our attention while doing neat things that we don't quite understand.

-Roger EbertFull Review

There are just a few groovy special effects and a practically incomprehensible story which we finally can't work up enough energy to care about.

-Wm. Humphrey

The film is painful in at least one way - its waste of good actors.

-Stanley Kauffmann

Smart, ambitious, occasionally elegant.

-Susan StarkFull Review

Destined to satisfy the thrill junkie and the sophisticate alike.

-Joe BaltakeFull Review

What used to be an IMF team effort turned into another star vehicle for Tom Cruise.

-John J. PuccioFull Review

Sensational, implausible, irresistible to teens.

-Randy WhiteFull Review

De Palma has a choppy, episodic sense of story, and he crafts individual scenes rather than telling a single unified story.

-Steven D. GreydanusFull Review

It's a mission De Palma shouldn't have chosen to accept.

-Rob GonsalvesFull Review

Unlike most action films, Mission: Impossible's distinct appeal operates not so much on suspense but on improbability.

-Zach CampbellFull Review

Despite the snags, De Palma remains a virtuoso puppet-master, pulling the strings taut in a nail-biting robbery sequence, switching from micro to macro with Hitchcockian panache, and finally letting rip with a hell-for-leather climax.

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Mission: Impossible helps remind us why the 1990s was such a powerhouse decade for great movies.

-Jason ZingaleFull Review

...succeeds in offering up several exciting and suspenseful sequences, though one can't help but wish that the dialogue-based moments packed the same sort of punch.

-David NusairFull Review

Each scene in and of itself plays very interestingly, even if they don't always logically lead one into the next scene.

-Jeffrey M. AndersonFull Review


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