Another adaptation of a 1960s TV drama that, thanks to De Palma, was a lot smarter than it needed to be. The magician’s trickery practiced by spy Tom Cruise is matched by the director’s own narrative sleight-of-hand.
The movie’s central action set piece — Cruise’s acrobatic hack of a terminal in a CIA vault — whose staging De Palma borrowed from the classic heist film "Rififi," has in turn served as the blueprint for every techno-thriller made since.
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