Mission Impossible

On my way into work this morning, and for many mornings past, I have noticed ads on the sides of buses, on subway walls and in various other places, touting the praises of "Mission Impossible: III," starring Tom Cruise, of course.

Um...if the mission is impossible, wouldn't he have been dead a long time ago? Shouldn't it be called "Mission Improbable." Twice, it seems, he has accomplished the impossible...thus defying the very idea that something is impossible.

Knowing of course, that Hollywood would never really let Tom Cruise die in a film of this caliber (mainly for fear that they may have to write a script in which he rises from the grave using his Scientologist methods of resurrection) can we please just call this what it is? Mission Improbable may not hold the same kind of presence as the chosen title, and it may not spark a sense of awe in the young demographic for which this movie surely was made, but then who do they think they're kidding? No one is really going to see this thing anyway.