Mission: Impossible (movie)

Mission: Impossible
Directed by	Brian De Palma
Screenplay by	David Koepp Robert Towne
Story by	David Koepp Steven Zaillian
Based on	Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller
Produced by	Tom Cruise Paula Wagner
Starring	Tom Cruise Jon Voight Henry Czerny Emmanuelle Béart Jean Reno Ving Rhames Kristin Scott Thomas Vanessa Redgrave
Cinematography	Stephen H. Burum
Edited by	Paul Hirsch
Music by	Danny Elfman
Production company	Cruise/Wagner Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures[1]
Release date	May 22, 1996 (1996-05-22)
Running time	110 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$80 million[3]
Box office	$457.7 million[3][4]

Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy movie starring Tom Cruise and directed by Brian De Palma. Set after the 1966 television series of the same name and its 1988 sequel series (canonically set six years later after the latter), it is the first installment of the Mission: Impossible movie series. It is set in London, Prague and Virginia.

Mission: Impossible was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 22, 1996. The movie was successful and it led to a long-running movie series, starting with Mission: Impossible II (2000), followed by Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and an untitled eighth movie in 2025.

Cast

• Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: A young IMF agent
• Jon Voight as Jim Phelps: The leader of Ethan's IMF team and his mentor
• Emmanuelle Béart as Claire Phelps: Phelps's wife and a member of his IMF team
• Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge: The director of the IMF
• Jean Reno as Franz Krieger: A disavowed IMF agent and skilled pilot recruited by Ethan to assist him
• Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: A disavowed IMF agent and skilled computer hacker recruited by Ethan to assist him
• Vanessa Redgrave as Max: An illegal arms dealer
• Kristin Scott Thomas as Sarah Davies: An IMF agent and Ethan's partner who is a surveillance expert
• Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Hannah Williams: An IMF agent and field operative in Phelps' team
• Emilio Estevez as Jack Harmon: An IMF agent and equipment technician in Phelps' team. Estevez went uncredited in the role.
• Rolf Saxon as William Donloe: A CIA analyst at Langley
• Marcel Iureş as Alexander Golitsyn: An IMF agent posing as a rogue agent to lure out the mole in Prague

Additional cast members include Karel Dobrý and Andreas Wisniewski as Max's henchmen, Annabel Mullion as an IMF agent posing as the flight attendant on Ethan's plane, Olegar Fedoro as an IMF agent during the Kyiv sequence, and Morgan Deare as Ethan's uncle Donald Hunt.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, 66% of 65 reviews are positive. The average rating is 6.10/10.^[5] On Metacritic, the movie has a score of 59 out of 100 based on 29 critic reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[6]

References

1. "Mission: Impossible". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 24, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
2. "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. April 27, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
3. "Mission: Impossible (1996)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
4. "Mission: Impossible (1996)". The Numbers. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
5. "Mission: Impossible". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
6. "Mission: Impossible". Metacritic. Retrieved July 22, 2023.

Other websites

• Mission: Impossible on IMDb
• Mission: Impossible at AllMovie