I have never been the biggest Tom Cruise fan but in preparation for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol I figured I should watch the first three movies to prepare. Out of all three it's easy for me to say that the first is the best. Probably because its the only one that isn't an all out action movie. The first despite the travesty of making Jim Phelps the bad guy, the movie has a good spy feel to it. For those that don't know Phelps was a good guy on the tv show. The biggest problem with the movie was the ending with a helicopter and train in a tunnel. I know that sounds like the beginning of a joke. So a train and a helicopter are in a tunnel and the train says "so how you doing?" And the helicopter replies "Oh you know just hitching a ride". There that's my joke. I know its bad but so was the ending. Overall the first movie was bad but failed to live up to the standards of the tv show. Now the second one was when the series began to crash. Between the slow mo and the action it just doesn't feel right. Mission Impossible isn't supposed to be an actionit movie. The look and feel of the first two movies is vastly different you could change the name of the two movies and never know they are related. What was started in the second one was carried over into the third one. The action was there with no suspense. Plus why do movie writers feel the need to create a fake object only to never explain what it is or what it does. Seriously what was the rabbits foot? For all I know Phillip Seymour Hoffman only wanted beef jerky and scratch offs from the local 7-11. What could have been a great trilogy completely betrays everything that is good with Mission Impossible. Out of all the movies watch the first and ignore the rest. Hopefully Ghost Protocol will redeem the series but it isn't looking good. As for a rating in order: 7.5/10, 6/10, and finally 6/10.
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