Mission: Impossible

In June 2020, I watched the spy action movie Mission: Impossible for the first time on my television set. It was released in 1996. The first installment of the Mission: Impossible series. Tom Cruise is well-known as the lead in the series. 

The movie follows the activities of Ethan Hunt who is a young agent for the Impossible Missions Forces, also known as the IMF, a division of the CIA.

The movie was just good. 

Although Sean Connery and Roger Moore as James Bond are cool and completely matured men who are good at joking, yet Tom Cruise as Hunt was a passionate and vigorous man who was better in action than the two great actors as Bond. By the way, Cruise in the movie looked similar to Charlie Sheen.

I had not liked Cruise for a long time but I thought of him as a young and handsome actor playing well when I watched The Color of Money and Rain Man. In the two movies he costarred with my favorite actors Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman respectively. I just had not been fond of the young Cruise because he looked impudent. I, however, have been a fan of him since I watched Fallout, the sixth installment of the series at a theater in 2018. Cruise in his fifties looked nice and matured. He has been a world-wide superstar since Top Gun, so he must have continued to make efforts without getting arrogant and being proud of his good-looking. What a great actor.

I was kind of surprised when Ving Rhames appeared with Jean Reno because I had seen him in the sixth movie. After watching the first one, I checked and knew that he had played the same role in all of the installments in the series. Cruise and he must be a good match. Rhames also played well as a crime boss in Pulp Fiction released in 1994. I was impressed with him in the scene where the boss is saying goodbye to an old boxer played by Bruce Wills. Rhame is a good actor who looks tough but has a winsome smile.