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| Director: Brian De Palma |
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Bruce Geller, David Koepp, Robert Towne, Steven Zaillian |
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J.C. Calciano, Paul Hitchcock, Paula Wagner |
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Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno |
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Action & Adventure |
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| Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 |
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(NTSC Widescreen) |
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Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround |
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English, Spanish |
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Special Edition |
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| Studio: Paramount |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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PG-13 |
| DVD Release: Apr 2006 |
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Discs: 1 (Cloud) [$12.98] |
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| Reviews: 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" |
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