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Mission Impossible (1996)


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Four out of Five

Movie

Rating: PG-13 (some intense action violence)
Length: 110 minutes

Video

Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Full Screen

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 2.0
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0

Captions

English, Spanish

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Plot

An American Agent (Cruise) is accused of being a spy selling government secrets for money. The movie is all about him finding out who the real spy is to clear his name.

Pros

A great cast with a number of interesting plot twists. There are some cool stunts and the movie ends with a bang and some nice special effects including a high-speed European train and helicopter all in a tunnel at the same time. Though Cruise is the main character, he does have a strong supporting cast including Voight, Reno and Rahmes. And hey, you can't have a Tom Cruise movie without some "eye candy" (Emmanuelle Béart) for the guys.

Cons

Hopefully you're a big fan of Tom Cruise because he is in every scene. And this is a movie only disc, they came out with a Special Edition later on like the movie industry seems to do more times than not anymore.

Extras

  • Theatrical Trailer

Recommendation

This is a fun popcorn flick for the guys with lots of plot twists and just the right amount action; it's not wall-to-wall special effects like so many movies are today.

Director

Brian De Palma   [Carlito's Way, Casualties of War, Dressed to Kill, Mission to Mars, Scarface, The Untouchables]

Actors

Emmanuelle Béart - Claire Phelps
Ion Caramitru - Zozimov
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
[A Few Good Men, Collateral, Interview with the Vampire, The Last Samurai, Magnolia, Minority Report, Mission Impossible II/III, Rain Man, Top Gun, War of the Worlds]
Henry Czerny - Eugene Kittridge
[Chaos]
Ingeborga Dapkunaite - Hannah Williams
Dale Dye - Frank Barnes
[Casualties of War, The Great Raid, Outbreak]
Emilio Estevez - Jack Harmon
[The Breakfast Club, Maximum Overdrive]
Marcel Iures - Alexander Golitsyn
[The Cave, Hart's War]
Nathan Osgood - Kittridge Technician
Vanessa Redgrave - Max
[Deep Impact, Mary Queen of Scots, Murder on the Orient Express]
Jean Reno - Franz Krieger
[The Da Vinci Code, Flyboys, Godzilla, La Femme Nikita, Léon, Ronin]
Ving Rhames - Luther Stickell
[Con Air, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Day of the Dead (2008), Mission Impossible II/III, Pulp Fiction]
Kristin Scott Thomas - Sarah Davies
[The English Patient, The Golden Compass, Gosford Park, The Horse Whisperer]
Marek Vasut - Drunken Male IMF Agent
Jon Voight - Jim Phelps
[Anaconda, Enemy of the State, Heat, Laura Croft Tomb Raider, National Treasure, National Treasure 2, The Odessa File, U-Turn]
Valentina Yakunina - Drunken Female IMF Agent

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