![]() ![]() ![]() The Mission: Impossible movies are very different – spectacular, splashy, relentless. One day, Cruise’s insurance documents will be published in a deluxe collected edition Every episode was executed with perfect economy and quietly nerve-jangling precision: it was as close as you could get to 007 filmed by Robert Bresson. ![]() You always knew what the mission was, but it was only at the end that you discovered how it was done. Each time the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) set about a new task, the viewer had to piece together the riddle of what was going on and work out how all the elements glimpsed in that week’s burning-fuse opening credits – say, a box of bees, fumes from a ventilator, someone dangling in a lift shaft, Martin Landau peeling off a false moustache – would combine into a coherent narrative. F ive films and nearly 20 years into the Mission: Impossible movie franchise, it’s still hard not to feel nostalgic for the original 60-70s TV series, the most rigorously formulaic thriller show ever. ![]()
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