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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1) Surround Sound, Spanish, Subtitled
Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit that "holds you on the edge of your seat before blasting you out of it" (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times). Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. Your mission should you decide to accept it: hang on for the "wildest ride of the year!" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times).
"A thrill machine that won't quit." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and suspicions are that it's Hunt. His only chance: Find out who the real mole is and turn the tables. The plan takes him on an incredibly suspenseful infiltration of CIA security, leading to a spectacular chunnel climax that would make Hitchcock proud. Thanks to crisp, inventive direction from Brian De Palma and Danny Elfman's dynamite electronica score (including a catchy update of the original Lalo Schifrin theme), this mission is great fun. The talented roster of stars backing Cruise includes Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave, John Voight, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Jean Reno. A witty script by Robert Towne (CHINATOWN, SHAMPOO) and David Koepp keeps the ball rolling in unexpected directions, with the paranoia always set to high. A box-office record-setter during its original release, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE led to a well-deserved sequel, also with Cruise and Rhames.
Plot Summary
The Impossible Mission Force is called into action and then into question in this thriller based on the hit television series. Big-budget special effects and action sequences propel the complex story, as does the unmistakable musical score.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 2.0 - French | | Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Features:
| Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 5/18/2004 |
| Running Time: 110 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 154977 | | UPC: 00097361549774 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE is an explosion of pleasures..." 07/01/1996 p.46-8USA Today
"...Stylish, brisk..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 05/22/1996 p.1D Entertainment Weekly
"...A Rubik's cube that keeps on twisting..." -- Rating: B 06/07/1996 p.44 Variety
"...Cruise tackles the action genre even more convincingly than he did in TOP GUN....And he looks great, too..." 05/20/1996 New York Times
"...A sleek, whooshingly entertaining update of the vintage television series....MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE catapults you into the wildest movie ride of the year..." 05/22/1996 p.C13 Los Angeles Times
"...MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE has lots going for it -- a charismatic star in Tom Cruise, Brian De Palma's sleek, elegant direction, a first-rate cast, a superb suspense sequence, lots of action capped by a breathtaking stunt at the climax..." 05/21/1996 p.F1 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Jacking his own paranoid angst into this slicked-up spy thriller, Brian De Palma maxes suspense and style to cut the template for post-Bond techno-blockbusters." 07/01/2006 p.127 |
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