Mission: Impossible

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Mission: Impossible

PG-13

1996

1h 50m

Action

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

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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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Critics Consensus

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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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Oct 8

2.5/4

Although the attendant cast acquit themselves well enough... the money-in-the-bank star seems somewhat distracted.

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Philip Wuntch

Dallas Morning News

May 13

The movie has too much vitality to allow itself to be overly analyzed; so just participate in the magic carpet ride.

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David Denby

New York Magazine/Vulture

May 6

The screenwriters, David Koepp and Robert Towne, barely sketch in relationships among the characters.

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Grant Hermanns

Screen Rant

Feb 12

8/10

De Palma delivered some great imagery for future filmmakers. Even as the stakes in the film continue to rise and the set pieces become bigger, he never forgets to keep the characters in the forefront of the camera to make the film feel intimate.

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Feb 9

3/4

At 108 minutes, the movie is brisk and never boring.

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Matt Soergel

Florida Times-Union

Jan 13

3/5

It is routinely mind-boggling.

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Anita M

Jan 7

Exciting, suspenseful.

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kyle

Jan 7

Peak cinema take me back to these days

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rjerrycaldwellmsncom

06/25/2021

I enjoyed watching it but I have seen it before.

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Donald K

@Awesomestar Feb 20

Very very good movie and one of the best Mission Impossibles with a tense, mysterious, nearly horror-like movie with a cool twist and an amazing first scene that carried the movie to earn money and begin the franchise we know today. Very good break-in scene too. Endlessly iconic movie but in the end missing some action

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Ray C

@RT17651982 Feb 17

"Hastа lasagna, don’t get any on ya." Humble beginnings for what’s now an iconic action franchise. The original Mission: Impossible is a lot better than I remembered. It’s a really strong ’90s spy thriller with some great twists and genuinely tense moments. The only thing that kind of holds it back is its convoluted, sometimes hard-to-follow plot.

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Rich S

@RPS1963 Feb 3

Mix De Palma, Cruise and all the other ingredients of Mission: Impossible and it becomes a not-too-campy, not-too-complex and not unentertaining Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy flick.

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Henry Czerny

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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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