... an engaging and exciting piece of action filmmaking, directed with devious style by De Palma, who knows how to stage a set piece

| Apr 26, 2025

What should have been a finely honed spy thriller is on Cruise-control in more ways than one. Or maybe the impossible mission is expecting a coherent movie from director Brian “Setpieces ’R’ Us” De Palma anymore.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 15, 2024

This works as a really great conservative prototype for future installments, complete with fun tech gadgetry and big action set pieces.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2023

Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible is clever sleight-of-hand filmmaking on a Hollywood scale, earning the label of pure cinema.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 6, 2023

At times, it’s a touch too complicated for its own good (some of Ethan’s visualized hypotheses are arranged to be purposely confusing), but the notion that no one can be trusted is largely effective.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 29, 2022

A subversive first film that went out of its way to break the blockbuster mold...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Although we all remember the series well, this flick is still worth checking out.

| May 31, 2022

A crazy, knowingly over-the-top, but entertaining action movie (25TH ANNIVERSARY Blu-ray review).

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2021

The first installment in the popular film franchise set the tone for what would be a consistently exciting series (that dopey M:I II aside).

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2021

While Mission: Impossible isn't the best film in the franchise, it lays the foundation for everything that will come our way in the future.

| May 21, 2021

Thanks, in part, to Cruise, the Mission: Impossible film franchise has grossed $3.5 billion to date with more to come...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 18, 2021

A production designed to entertain and to do it in such a way that the viewer remains glued to the seat with De Palma's visual and narrative inventiveness. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 23, 2020

There are some standout action sequences, and that's what really makes it worth a look back.

| Original Score: 6.25/10 | Dec 7, 2018

If we're going by a comparison to James Bond, while I love me a good Bond film, Mission: Impossible is miles ahead of that entire franchise in its treatment of female characters.

| Aug 20, 2018

It's all very ambitious and very creative and very wonderful to watch...the first Mission: Impossible remains the closest to perfect that any Mission: Impossible movie has ever been.

| Jul 25, 2018

De Palma's film has some stunning sequences... But the movie so betrayed the spirit of the original 온라인카지노추천 series, by betraying the spirit and integrity of a formerly unimpeachable character, that the entire project smelled of cynicism.

| Jun 1, 2018

The "set" pieces of this film come off like clockwork, but there's no connective tissue -- no story line, no solid characterization, etc. In the end, De Palma's work seems full of sound and visual fury without signifying much of anything.

| Jan 5, 2018

The film tries to push against its genre, and the auteurist flourishes are unmistakable.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 2, 2016

Still holds up as a fun, unique entry in the action spy genre and launched Tom Cruise's second career arc as an action megastar.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jul 27, 2015

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

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2011