Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible
6.9

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Directed by: Brian De Palma

Overview

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible

Reviews (7)

  • Gimly (Rated: 4)

    While the sequences that Mission: Impossible is most famous for (the ceiling-descent and train-top) are truly thrilling, absolutely everything in between these scenes is obvious and uninspired. Rarely can a movie have you so completely engaged one minute, and then immediately back to checking the ...

  • Per Gunnar Jonsson (Rated: 6)

    When I first saw this movie I did not like it at all. My main gripe with the movie was (and is) that it did not feel like a Mission Impossible movie.

    Spoilers ahead! In the original series the team always succeeded, at least in the episodes I watched. However, the movie starts off with a big fail...

  • Wuchak (Rated: 6)

    Well done spy/caper thriller with Tom Cruise and an eye-rolling Scooby-Doo element

    The Impossible Missions Force has a mission at a Prague gala concerning a CIA non-official cover list, but it doesn’t go as planned. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Clair Phelps (Emmanuelle Béart) then team-up wi...

  • The Movie Mob (Rated: 8)

    Mission: Impossible thrives on a more localized story, trading massive stunts and action set pieces for a greater focus on spycraft, theft, and espionage.

    Mission: Impossible operates on a much smaller scale than its successors and benefits from a more contained story. The action and suspense...

  • GenerationofSwine (Rated: 10)

    Man, when this came out I was thinking that we are going to have another James Bond franchise only with an American and I was super stoked about it.

    Unfortunately I got my wish. This is really the only one worth watching and M:I2 just destroyed the series that didn't have the sense to die.

    But...

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