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A flashy, splashy summer-movie blockbuster that's fun and exciting without being mindless? That's the impossible mission accomplished by director Brian De Palma, star-coproducer Tom Cruise, and the crack team of Mission: Impossible. Based on the '60s TV show and an almost impenetrably complex (but nonetheless thrilling) original story by David Koepp (Jurassic Park) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), with a screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo), Mission: Impossible begins with veteran agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his expert crew embarking on a mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But nothing is what it seems. The nail-biting set piece--always a signature of director De Palma (Carrie, The Untouchables)--in which Cruise is lowered from the ceiling to retrieve information from a computer in a high-security vault--is an instant classic. But perhaps even more impressive, at least in retrospect, is a flashback sequence in which two characters attempt to reconstruct a series of events from multiple points of view. It's pretty daring and sophisticated stuff for a big-budget spy movie, but brains were always what put the Mission: Impossible team ahead of the competition, anyway, no? --Jim Emerson
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| upc: |
0097361549729 |
| title: |
Mission Impossible |
| theatricalDate: |
22-05-1996 |
| stars: |
Tom Cruise
Jon Voight
Emmanuelle Béart
Henry Czerny
Jean Reno
Ving Rhames
Kristin Scott Thomas
Vanessa Redgrave
Dale Dye
Marcel Iures
Ion Caramitru
Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Valentina Yakunina
Marek Vasut
Nathan Osgood
John McLaughlin
Rolf Saxon
Karel Dobry
Andreas Wisniewski
David Shaeffer |
| purchase date: |
07-09-2006 |
| publisher: |
Paramount |
| published: |
17-11-1998 |
| price: |
$14.98 |
| net Rating: |
3.5 |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 |
| minutes: |
110 |
| last lookup time: |
179361696 |
| genre: |
Thrillers
Betrayal
Tom Cruise
Action & Adventure |
| fullTitle: |
Mission Impossible |
| features: |
AC-3
Closed-captioned
Color
Full Screen
Letterboxed
Widescreen
NTSC
2.35:1 |
| director: |
Brian De Palma |
| currentValue: |
$5.31 |
| created: |
179361696 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
6305181772
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