JAMES LILEKS ON MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE:

They’re assembling a really, really complicated plan that takes a 60-year-old mobster and makes him think he’s back in 1937, because – as the opening tape tells us – he threatens to take over the east coast. So they rent a movie backlot, hire tons of people, redress the sets, put up banners and signs and things that say 1937, instead of just oh, I don’t know, taking him out in a back lot and popping him?

Who in 1972 could confidently recreate 1937 without missing a million details? Anyway, here’s the mobster in 1972 . . .Recognize him? How about now? It’s the eyes, the intensity. Then they magically de-age him, and well . . .

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