Advantages: Nice ideas, has THAT theme
Disadvantages: I like a bit of game with my Mission: Impossible theme tune

...Ah, the IMF. For many years I was under the impression that the espionage carried out by the Mission: Impossible team was for the good of the International Monetary Fund, until I played this game on the Nintendo 64, and realised IMF stood for Impossible Mission Force. Makes more sense, of course – I never could work out why the IMF was spying rather than lending out money – but doesn’t conjure up quite the same mental image. A mental image that was further damaged by the rather poor film, and finally laid for dead by this utterly appalling spy sim. Ocean always did have a hard task ahead of it, of course. GoldenEye had been released on the Nintendo 64, showing gamers that film licenses need not be pale imitations of the film itself, but excellent games in their own right. No amount of tweaking could have made Mission: Impossible... Read review

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Advantages: Great Action
Disadvantages: Storyline is lacking

...Good Morning Mr Hunt. Your mission should you choose to accept it involves the recovery of a secret item designated Chimera. You may select any two team members but it is essential that the third team member be Miss Naya Nordolf Hall. She is a civilian and a highly capable professional thief. You have 48 hours to recruit Miss Nordolf hall and meet me in Seville to receive your assignment. As usual, should you or any member of your IMF team be caught or killed the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Mr. Hunt. Next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you are going. This message will self destruct in 5 seconds. ------------------------- Tom Cruise returns in his second outing as Ethan Hunt in the highly anticipated sequel to Mission: Impossible. Now shortened to merely... Read review

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Advantages: great twists
Disadvantages: too complicated (maybe even impossible)

...Good Morning Mr Phelps... The man you are looking at is Alexander Golitsyn, an attaché at our embassy in Prague. He is also a traitor. He has stolen one half of the CIA NOC list, containing the names of all our deep cover agents. For security reasons it's split into 2. One half has the code names but is useless without it's mate which matches them to the real names. It is this half he plans to steal from the embassy tomorrow night. Your mission should you choose to accept it is to obtain photographic proof of the theft, shadow Golitsyn to his buyer and apprehend them both. As always should you, or any member of your IM force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions..... I have fond memories of mission impossible. When I was a child me and my dad would watch the TV series on BBC I think it was... Read review

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Advantages: Great directing, great action stunts, good story, great acting.
Disadvantages: None!

...Another excellent film that I have recently purchased on DVD, is Mission Impossible 2. Not only is it a great action movie, reminding me sometimes of other great movies, like The Matrix and James Bond, but it has a fairly good storyline, as well as a bit of lovey dovey stuff. Tom Cruise is back playing Ethan Hunt, our Mission Impossible hero. Sequels are so much better when the original star is cast. So what’s the impossible mission this time? Doctor Nekhorvich (played by Rade Serbedzija), has found out that the company he works for, Biocyte, has developed a lethal form of influenza known as Chimera. They have also developed a cure for this (Bellerophon), and Doctor Nekhorvich learns that they plan to release Chimera into the population so that they can make huge profits on the cure, Bellerophon. He informs the head... Read review

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Advantages: good acting throughout.
Disadvantages: can get a bit confusing.

...Tom Cruise