Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 19
Full of special effects, Brian DePalma's update of Mission: Impossible has a lot of sweeping spectacle, but the plot is sometimes convoluted.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 9
Full of special effects, Brian DePalma's update of Mission: Impossible has a lot of sweeping spectacle, but the plot is sometimes convoluted.
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After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares little more with the original show than the occasional self-destructing message and the name of team leader Jim Phelps (Jon Voight). The film focuses not on Phelps but his protégé, Ethan Hunt (a reserved Tom Cruise),
PG-13, 1 hr. 50 min.
May 22, 1996 Wide
Jan 17, 1998
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (52) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (20) | DVD (24)
The most dour, sexless piece of escapism in memory.
Top CriticHumorless, charmless and flat.
This movie isn't a disaster, but, all things considered, there's little reason to make it a high priority for theatrical viewing.
Every effect is so calculated that only the conscious minds of filmmakers and viewers are engaged--and not by very much or for very long.
A sleek, stunningly made movie.
The film is painful in at least one way - its waste of good actors.
If you like Cruise, it's his movie. (Extreme Blu-ray Trilogy)
What used to be an IMF team effort turned into another star vehicle for Tom Cruise.
Sensational, implausible, irresistible to teens.
De Palma has a choppy, episodic sense of story, and he crafts individual scenes rather than telling a single unified story.
It's a mission De Palma shouldn't have chosen to accept.
Nimble, expertly contrived summer entertainment that doesn't insult the intelligence.
Unlike most action films, Mission: Impossible's distinct appeal operates not so much on suspense but on improbability.
Despite the snags, De Palma remains a virtuoso puppet-master, pulling the strings taut in a nail-biting robbery sequence, switching from micro to macro with Hitchcockian panache, and finally letting rip with a hell-for-leather climax.
Mission: Impossible helps remind us why the 1990s was such a powerhouse decade for great movies.
...succeeds in offering up several exciting and suspenseful sequences, though one can't help but wish that the dialogue-based moments packed the same sort of punch.
Each scene in and of itself plays very interestingly, even if they don't always logically lead one into the next scene.
An incredibly boring and confusing espionage thriller...So inept on so many levels that it could easily be called The Bonfire of the Secret Agents.
'Mission:Impossible' a film that will turn into a very successful franchise, seems it might've had a rocky start. Although this action-packed movie has plenty of fresh entertainment value, its corny camera work and wooden writing could use some improvement. It is however, a decent start to a franchise that will
December 17, 2011Super Reviewer
There are spy thrillers and then there's Mission Impossible. A non-stop cavalcade of action, adrenaline and top notch suspense. With some sure-handed directing by Brian De Palma and a well-merged team of actors with Tom Cruise in the lead, this first entry in the series is undoubtedly one of the best. I haven't seen
July 10, 2007Super Reviewer
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