Viewed – 11 August 2015 Blu-ray
With Rogue Nation fresh in my head, I thought it might be fun to revisit the original 1996 blockbuster. Now sitting down to this, my memory was fairly cloudy and I realised I hadn’t actually seen it since it’s cinema release, yet recalled finding it overly confusing with a couple of stand out sequences.
Cruise, looking very young is Ethan Hunt, not quite the super-spy we know him to be today but simply a special agent for a CIA division known as IMF. Headed by John Voight, Hunt and his crew consisting of smouldering French beauty Emmanuelle Béart as well as former brat-packer Emillio Estefez must locate some stolen files that could leak the identities of a number of special agents into the wrong hands. However during the mission, Cruise finds himself double-crossed and his team all but killed. He’s then on the…
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