There are very few spy movies that can top “Mission: Impossible”. This a movie where that loveable sense of double and even triple crossing is present along with some immensely enjoyable action sequences that may well be silly but are very fun still.

The film has a confusing plot but the world of spies would be boring if it weren’t confusing. Near the beginning of the film, I.M.F. (Impossible Mission Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise “Top Gun”, “Minority Report”) sees the rest of his team murdered during a mission but are they really dead? Ethan Hunt must soon prove that he is not part of weapons deal as well as stopping the bad guys get hold of names and codenames of agents across the continents.

Tom Cruise is either pretty good or horrifically over the top and here he’s pretty good. I was surprised at how impressed I was with Cruise’s performance though as I didn’t expect that what he’d have to work with be very good and I thought he’d overdo as this is an action movie. Jon Voight (“Heat”, “Transformers”) is reasonably good as Ethan’s boss, Jim Phelps. Jean Reno (“Godzilla”, “Leon”) isn’t too great as Franz Krieger. Most of the cast are so and so.

There is loads of sneaking around in “Mission: Impossible”, there is loads of action too. The finale has Ethan Hunt going after the bad guy on a moving train. A helicopter gets involved and there is a huge explosion. However, it wasn’t the action that is the best part of “Mission: Impossible”. I love the team effort in this movie. As great as some of the “James Bond” films are, he’s always the one who does all the work and very rarely does he get much help. Here, “Mission: Impossible” features earpieces and hackers so everything can run like clockwork, which I feel is a little more sophisticated kind of spy work.