30 Years Ago, Tom Cruise’s First Mission: Impossible Movie Included the Kind of Twist That Would Make Most Fanbases Melt Down Today

30 Years Ago, Tom Cruise’s First Mission: Impossible Movie Included the Kind of Twist That Would Make Most Fanbases Melt Down Today

Imagine if in The Force Awakens, Han Solo had turned out to have arranged for the outright murders of Poe, C-3PO and, hell, let’s throw Chewbacca in, that occurred early on in the film, as he tells Rey how he’s actually joined the First Order and is working with them, forcing Rey to kill him to stop his evil plan. Or if in Creed 2, the fix was in and Rocky Balboa was actually helping the Dragos defeat Adonis for his own, bitter reasons. And then…

Tom Cruise's 8-Part Action Franchise Officially Began 30 Years Ago

Tom Cruise has made a defining career as an action hero, yet the first part of his biggest franchise officially began 30 years ago.

Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible Celebrates 30 Years of Masks, Stunts and Box Office Glory

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Mission: Impossible at 30: How Tom Cruise's Spy Thriller Predicted Internet Paranoia

Mission: Impossible, the first one, does not mark the start of the franchise so much as the final transmission from a briefly extant species of Hollywood blockbuster: expensive studio entertainments made by actual paranoiacs. This was before the series ossified into a kind of death cult around Tom Cruise’s tendon elasticity. Brian De Palma made a suspenseful (and much less action-heavy than its successors) spy thriller about contamination, of tr…