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movie review - Mission: Impossible

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Once upon a time I watched "Mission Impossible II" and did not like it. That was a very, very long time ago and I thought I was done with these films. I certainly had never seen the first one.

But then I wound up seeing the 6th in the series after it got a lot of surprise good reviews, and I was happily surprised to realize that it was excellent. So when faced with a movie night and the original was on Netflix, I suggested to my daughter that we see this.

I can honestly say that I don't know what happened to this thing but it feels like production ran into serious problems and they pasted something together out of the resulting mess and somehow it stuck. I can't believe that a confused and poorly-told story like this spawned an entire series of movies. Yes, there was the original TV series but that's ancient history by this point.

Avoid.