Mission: Impossible | | Cast : | Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart | | Director : | Brian De Palma | | Studio : | Paramount Studio | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | May 22, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | August 19, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 26, 2005 | | Summary | one of the best action films I've ever seen | Content
 | ...and I've seen a lot of them.
What is so great about this film - beyond the acting - is how complex and multi-layered the story is. You have to see it multiple times to get everything, such as Cruise's realization while looking in the Gideon Bible from Palmer House in Chicago, and you (or at least I) never get tired of seeing it again. This is because the story is so dense with detail and so perfectly executed. Thru it all, Cruise pulls it off as a totally believable actor, on a par with Sean Connery in the early Bond films. (For anyone with a taste for the authentic, their enjoyment of Bond simply could not tolerate the corniness of Roger Moore - that is the level of Cruise's performance in this one.)
Warmly recommended for connoissuer's of the action genre. You can hardly do better than this one, with the exceoption of the early Bond or Matt Damon in Bourne. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | Preposterous & unforgettable | Content
| Less an homage to the classic show, "Mission: Impossible" is more like an homage to cold-war thrillers in general, with international travel, intrigue in European cities and some high-tension excitement inspired by the classic hesit movie "Topkapi". MI stars Cruise as Ethan Hunt, the front man of the "Impossible Mission Force" (which coincidentally shares its initials with "International Monetary Fund - interesting coincidence).
The flick begins in Prague with a mission to nab a turncoat who steals an index of secret agents across the world - the NOC list. At first everything works like clockwork - then it goes wrong. Hunt finds himself on the run as his fellow agents die. Soon, he's the sole survivor, and the disk is missing. Unable to return home (his superiors think he's the turncoat) Hunt goes after the disk himself. Following up on some slim clues, Hunt hooks up with a British arch-criminal played by Vanessa Redgrave who has the disk - cleverly convincing her that its "tainted" (it has a virus that causes whatever computer runs it to emit a distinctive frequency). What Redgrave's character can't give him, is the identity of the man who gave her the disk - likely also responsible for betraying Hunt's team. To get that, Hunt will have to steal the NOC list himself - and that will require him to hook up with the darkest agents ever to grace the IMF's "Disavowed-by-the-Secretary Agents" list", stage an impossible burglary of CIA HQ, and download the information directly from the CIA mainframe. Then he must navigate his fellow thieves, including Jean Reno as a maverick assassin and pilot, Ving Rhames as a master-hacker, and Julie Delpy as the wife of Mr. Phelps.
This was a great flick - at times so incomprehensible you're tempted to write it off all as nonsense. But Cruise and DePalma miraculously manage to hold your attention for the entire run. There are so many great momemts that work with subtlety off of DePalma's high-tension direction - as if the director had done his work suspended from the ceiling by wires in some corner of the CIA. Much better by half than its witless sequel, MI keeps from self-destructing through the end of the movie.
WISH I'D THOUGHT OF IT: The CIA computer room is secured by numerous devices meant to keep anybody from getting to the computer. They've boobytrapped the walls and the floor to keep the computer safe; there are heat sensors, pressure sensors and sound sensors - everything to keep anybody from getting into the computer when the designated users locks up. So why if the keyboard is what they're trying to protect, why ain't it boobytrapped? |
| Rating | | | Date | July 04, 2005 | | Summary | Red light, green light! | Content
| This is one the picture that promises much more than what it gives. At the end, when you sum, you feel something didn't fit, though the frenetic narrative rhythm.
Visually the film is stunning, plenty of action but the script is extremely week, the dominant presence of Cruise along the film, shadows the ominous presence of figures as Jon Voight, Scott Thomas, Jean Reno and Vanessa Redgrave who are pitifully wasted in insipid lines.
To win in a thriller you have to think in the evilness of the characters too. It is not enough to shine with bit nails sequences. I mean there is a balance problem in the dramatic environment. And the presence of the enemy is so diminished that it is reduced to a simple cartoon
The final sequence crossed the line of the credibility to convert itself in a funny joke.
That's what it happens when you loss the balance and the abuse of the special effects domains the game.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 14, 2005 | | Summary | Awesome Fun | Content
| This is Tom Cruise's coolest role ever. He plays Ethan Hunt. A calm, yet intense and intelligent spy.
He is strong and cool, but also very brainy. A far cry better than the dumb sequel. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | Good old fashioned SPY fun with all the gadgets! | Content
| Tom Cruise and Jon Voight are awesome in this movie, it is fun and reminds you of some old Bond 007 films with all of the high tech gadgetry they use. Overall very entertaining! Some scenes are a bit over the top, but so is the mission! So take it for what it is, not what you wish it to be.
After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares little more with the original show than the occasional self-destructing message and the name of team leader Jim Phelps (Jon Voight).
The film focuses not on Phelps but his protégé, Ethan Hunt (a reserved Tom Cruise), who becomes a fugitive after taking the blame for a botched operation. He responds by banding together with a group of fellow renegades, and he is soon maneuvering his way through a twisted series of double crosses that mainly serve as excuses for spectacular high-tech action sequences. Much of the activity revolves around a missing computer disk, with the film's most famous scene depicting Hunt's delicate efforts to retrieve the disk from a secure, well-alarmed room in CIA headquarters. |
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