Mission: Impossible: The Bunker: Part 1 (1969)
Season 3, Episode 19
8/10
Quintessential episode
24 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I didn't like the fact that the tape sequence was from stock footage and don't get why..... The plot too implausible especially the mask scenes. Why should Cinnamon wear two masks? Maybe because they should fit on her face by the specialist Roland - ok there is an answer.... But many times in order to create a mask they first create a matrix from the person's face.

However, sometimes, somehow they can construct a mask without a reference. Even with the reference photo they had, that would be impossible.... (But you will respond ,my friend that is why the mission is not ,, dangerous,, as the Greek translation suggests but Impossible, so you ask too much..... ) An other part of the story that is too extreme is the flying saucer gadget. Couldn't they just provide the injection through his ,, wife,,? Or otherwise?

An other extreme element of the plot is the precise timing. All happens as it has been considered before. Ventlos hit Roland and impersonated him, at least he took reference from his face. How can Roland recovers the exact moment the bunker is about to explode and reunites with his team? If he hadn't recover they wouldn't be able to find him.... And how do they know how much time is left to evacuate the bunker?

I will stop taking a dig at the series. Apart from the flaws and the stretched plots is very good otherwise I wouldn't watch it... The most impossible is this episode is not the mission but the face of Lee Meriwether... And I will mention the use of the clock in close ups. It enhances the suspense and the viewer's agony. Besides that is the point. To cause agony to the viewer as much as you can. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation, as the master Hitchcock used to say.....
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