Brian De Palma
Mission:Impossible

LA RECENSIONE

So, there's an enemy who is actually not an enemy and is named Max, but in reality, it's a woman. There's a friend who is actually an enemy but maybe is a friend because he's only an enemy in the mistaken assumptions of the protagonist, which might actually correspond to reality. At the beginning, it seems like everyone dies in Prague, then you find out that half of them are safe and have waited the entire movie to reappear in London at the exact moment when a secret agent—he might really be himself, meaning Tom Cruise, who for all we know, since the film at one point plants this doubt, might be disguised as an old man or be an old man disguised as himself, I mean, as Tom Cruise, not the old man, the young one who might be dressed as the old man, perhaps—so, I was saying at the exact moment when the protagonist, incognito and unbeknownst to the whole world, sneaks around in the English capital, just to make a call, and nobody knows why he didn't do it down at the tire shop in Brembate, since he was already there. Not to mention there's a woman who blows up in a car, but it's not clear if she really blows up, with the car, and in any case, it's unclear who's making the car explode and with it the woman, but who knows, because the one to press the button that gives the command for the explosion could have been either him or her, watching the movie you'll understand who I'm implying, or perhaps both, or maybe it was just a diesel leak and, well, a lighter happened to be there by chance—but did it really happen to be there by chance? Or did the protagonist light it, who perhaps is the antagonist who might be the disguised protagonist, but only on odd days? In short, to all the idiot screenwriters who think they can fool you with little tricks from a ciellino psychological thriller rolling over on itself without going anywhere, I would recommend the first Mission:Impossible and its inconclusive and schizophrenic screenplay worthy of mandatory psychiatric commitment. Brian De Palma does what he can, but you can see he's losing it too.