Completely ignoring the script, what really makes the movie "Mission: Impossible" a bad movie experience (when it was shown in the theaters) was the marketing. There were three big events that happened at the end of three long sequences (which were near the ending of each of the three reels). The final seconds of each event was shown on almost every commercial: the aquarium blows up and Tom jumps through a window, Tom almost falls to the floor of the computer room, Tom gets thrown forward by a helicopter explosion in a train tunnel. The end result: the viewer knew what was going to happen in each segment; the movie generated no tension. You might say it generated compression.

-Faux "back from Texas" Pas