7 Movies That Secretly Give Away The Plot At The Very Start

6. Mission: Impossible - The Opening Credits Are Basically A Spoiler-y Trailer

Nowadays Mission: Impossible is so strongly linked with Tom Cruise that there’s multiple generations of cinemagoers that probably have no idea it was originally a long running sixties TV show, nor that one of the series’ most memorable elements is still with the franchise today. No, not an IMF agent climbing things and running a lot - we're talking about that spoiler-heavy opening.

Used in all films in the series, a match lights a fuse and suddenly a flashing opening credits shows clips still to come in the movie, acting almost as a more spoilerific trailer. In the first film it’s really as blatant as you can get - if you're eagle-eyed you can get a glimpse of most of the key action sequences, as well as learn that Jon Voight's going to survive the initial botched mission.

The reason a modern movie would go for such blatant reveals is actually a loving throwback to the original series. In a then groundbreaking move, each episode had different opening credits (scored, of course, to that theme tune) that showed moments from the upcoming episode kicked off by, yes, a match lighting a fuse. Think Game Of Thrones' Westeros map with less polish and more plot reveals and you have an idea of what it was like.