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Mission: Impossible? well, maybe, since all that the characters in this superblockbuster [CINEMA, May 27] seem to want to do is just save their jobs. Although I agree with film critic Richard Schickel that the movie was so-so at best, I'd like to suggest that he see the film again, as he missed the deeper message. Whether or not it was their intention, the screenwriters have loaded the movie with psychosociological metaphors, turning it from an uneven, sometimes exciting, sometimes very so-so spy thriller into a study of current trends in corporate America and the escalating employment...
...Schickel kidding when he wrote that Tom Cruise sports "the worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star"? Cruise looks great--clean, sleek and lithe. Just what is called for. Besides, his new look is hardly new at all: everybody knows this haircut worked wonders for Keanu Reeves in Speed and Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever. KRISTINA FELICIANO New York City Via E-mail...
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