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Mission: Impossible

Play trailer 1:50 Poster for Mission: Impossible PG-13 Released May 22, 1996 1h 50m Action Adventure Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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When U.S. government operative Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his mentor, Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), go on a covert assignment that takes a disastrous turn, Jim is killed, and Ethan becomes the prime murder suspect. Now a fugitive, Hunt recruits brilliant hacker Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and maverick pilot Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) to help him sneak into a heavily guarded CIA building to retrieve a confidential computer file that will prove his innocence.
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Full of special effects, Brian DePalma's update of Mission: Impossible has a lot of sweeping spectacle, but the plot is sometimes overly convoluted.

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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News The movie has too much vitality to allow itself to be overly analyzed; so just participate in the magic carpet ride. May 13, 2025 Full Review David Denby New York Magazine/Vulture The screenwriters, David Koepp and Robert Towne, barely sketch in relationships among the characters. May 6, 2025 Full Review Paul Kalina The Age (Australia) Many of the capable cast are wasted, misused or miscast. May 6, 2025 Full Review David Elliott Copley News Service Enjoyable, fleet-fingered nonsense, less in debt to the "fabled" tv show than to some Hitchcock thrillers and to the Bond movies. Rated: 3/4 May 13, 2025 Full Review Lawrence Toppman Charlotte Observer The grand finale takes place within the Chunnel Tunnel, and is so silly and preposterous that it reminded me of a Chuck Jones "Roadrunner" cartoon. At least the 온라인카지노추천 show held on to some semblance of reality. Rated: 3/4 May 7, 2025 Full Review Mike Pearson Denver Rocky Mountain News "Mission: Impossible" isn't a great action film, merely a good one. Too often it gives you pate when you just want meat and potatoes. May 7, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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rjerrycaldwellmsncom I enjoyed watching it but I have seen it before. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/25/21 Full Review Mark F Brian de Palma is for me a bit of a hit and miss director, sometimes very good (Scarface), sometimes very bad (Casualties of War). The thing he's undeniably great at is choreographing an intense, edge of your seat, suspense sequence. The train station in The Untouchables and the Langley sequence in this are two of the best in movie history. So he was a good choice for Mission Impossible 1, and although the climax is OTT and dated now, it's still one of the top 3 installments in the franchise. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/15/25 Full Review Jude Adriyan F A wonderful beginning Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/15/25 Full Review Audience Member Having seen this multiple times, the twists are known. But the movie surprisingly holds up minus a few technology things. Cruise is still a baby in this movie and not the Ethan Hunt we get to know. The turns and twists in the movie are good but often underdeveloped or unexplained. They need to spend about 90 more seconds to explain a few things. Wish some of the characters were either more developed or out of the film. Some unnecessary items make the film drag a bit. Overall, enjoyed the movie and what ends up being an introduction to an ongoing franchise that wows at every stop. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/05/25 Full Review Brent W Having seen this multiple times, the twists are known. But the movie surprisingly holds up minus a few technology things. Cruise is still a baby in this movie and not the Ethan Hunt we get to know. The turns and twists in the movie are good but often underdeveloped or unexplained. They need to spend about 90 more seconds to explain a few things. Wish some of the characters were either more developed or out of the film. Some unnecessary items make the film drag a bit. Overall, enjoyed the movie and what ends up being an introduction to an ongoing franchise that wows at every stop. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/05/25 Full Review Hailee B Okay, awesome action movies nowadays are not as chaotic as this movie. Way to go, Brian!!. The transition at the beginning of the movie of Ethan ripping off the makeup was so awesome was not expecting that at all don't really see that in movies as good as that. The scene of the aquarium restaurant breaking was crazy, and man, that gum is crazy, such little things make the biggest things happen, would love to go there lol. That mission to recover the disk was crazy bro almost got trashed and that idiot dropped his freaking knife ugh dumbass. The great chemistry in the movie was awesome, it all felt so real, and to know some of these stunts are actually real is crazy. Coming to the end of the movie, wow, what a crazy twist, man. It really got me thinking that everyone died. Nope, everyone was just fake as hell. Crazy action with the helicopter and the train holy crap man and especially when there linked together crazy well derserved good movie cant wait to continue the franchise. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/26/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When U.S. government operative Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his mentor, Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), go on a covert assignment that takes a disastrous turn, Jim is killed, and Ethan becomes the prime murder suspect. Now a fugitive, Hunt recruits brilliant hacker Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and maverick pilot Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) to help him sneak into a heavily guarded CIA building to retrieve a confidential computer file that will prove his innocence.
Director
Brian De Palma
Producer
Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
Screenwriter
David Koepp, Robert Towne
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount Pictures, Cruise-Wagner Productions
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 22, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 2, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$180.9M
Runtime
1h 50m
Sound Mix
Stereo, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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