In Collection
#1
Seen It:
Yes
Adventure, Thriller, Mystery, Action
USA / English
| Tom Cruise |
Ethan Hunt |
| Jon Voight |
Jim Phelps |
| Emmanuelle Béart |
Claire Phelps |
| Henry Czerny |
Eugene Kittridge |
| Jean Reno |
Franz Krieger |
| Kristin Scott Thomas |
Sarah Davies |
| Vanessa Redgrave |
Max |
| Dale Dye |
Frank Barnes |
| Marcel Iures |
Alexander Golitsyn |
| Dougray Scott |
Sean Ambrose |
| Ving Rhames |
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| Kristin Scott-Thomas |
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| Emmanuelle Beart |
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| Director |
Brian De Palma; Robert Dornhelm |
| Producer |
Tom Cruise; Lawrence Schiller; Paula Wagner |
| Writer |
Daniel Taplitz; David Koepp; Robert Towne |
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
| Distributor |
Paramount |
| Edition |
Special Collector's Edition |
| Barcode |
097361198842 |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
5/22/2007 |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Screen Ratio |
Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 [French]
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 [Spanish]
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 [English] |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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