Mission: Impossible

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Watched With: Jordan, Amberly

Holy Cow this film is 15 years old. The internet and computer tech dates it pretty clearly but it's still a damn great film from Brian De Palma, a man who never says no to a good split field diopter shot.

The harness drop scene has been parodied more times than I could count and that whole sequence still manages to get the tension up. The opening fake out is great, classic noir stuff. They introduce a team played by great actors who all get top billing and then just immediately kill them off. It's pretty mean, but it just get you on edge. And then there's the final train action set piece, which is pretty ridiculous but a lot of fun.

It's the film that ushered in the new wave of spy films, that sits somewhere between where the big action of James Bond was at the time and before the Borne series with it's more serious and realistic low key approach, which the Bond franchise has now taken on to a degree.

Good stuff.