DAC Episode 409 - Mission: Impossible (1996)

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Has Tom Cruise ever been younger than he was in the first Mission: Impossible movie? In the literal sense, yes. But in the very specific rhetorical sense that I’m asking you to accept here, no. He has never looked more baby-faced and callow than he does in the first installment of this improbably long franchise. Are there really 29 years between this film and M:I - Dead Reckoning? It seems impossible to even conceive of such a thing.

It’s also the start of our series, in which Adam and Aidan watch - in some cases for the first time - every goddamn one of these things. Yay! Listen below for our take on DePalma’s take on Mission: Impossible’s take on the spy genre.