The Now Playing Podcast is looking at each Mission: Impossible film, in anticipation of the fifth film in the franchise, which will open in theaters at the end of July. A couple of weeks ago, they began the series with the initial film from 1996, directed by Brian De Palma. Overall, the group feels that while the film has "problems," they found a lot to like and mildly recommend it. "The problem," according to one of the podcast's three hosts, "is the movie wants to be so coy all the time, it wants to surprise you, that it leaves out too much information, and you end up having to piece things together from not enough footage." If, like me, you don't actually see a problem here, get ready for a trying 84-minute discussion bogged down with comments about how "it would have been easy to fix that" in the script, along with an incessant need to have everything spelled out for the viewer.(Thanks to Will!)