Mission: Impossible

Just fucking shocked at the hypnotic hold this movie has on me. I’ll swear up and down how much this my 2nd favorite M:I film despite its age. I wish somehow these movies carried the De Palma mystique (dead reckoning gets close!) but idk where this one would be placed if it was the case but it’s hard to top the source. I’ve called this movie “dark” before to others and it’s way off base of being so but I mean it with how it handles its opening and the spiral we’re swept under alongside Hunt as it props up the whole movie with that opening, to me at least. And how small scale this one is makes things tightly knit. The psychological elements are just surface level but I don’t remember fully if the other movies go further w that something I wish they’ve done as well. Will forever love this one, will forever have me say “this is the coolest shit ever” every 10 mins.