Mission: Impossible (movie)

Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy movie starring Tom Cruise and directed by Brian De Palma. Set after the 1966 television series of the same name and its 1988 sequel series (canonically set six years later after the latter), it is the first installment of the Mission: Impossible movie series. It is set in London, Prague and Virginia. 

Mission: Impossible was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 22, 1996. The movie was successful and it led to a long-running movie series, starting with Mission: Impossible II (2000), followed by Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and part two in 2025.

Cast

 Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: A young IMF agent
 Jon Voight as Jim Phelps: The leader of Ethan's IMF team and his mentor
 Emmanuelle Béart as Claire Phelps: Phelps's wife and a member of his IMF team
 Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge: The director of the IMF
 Jean Reno as Franz Krieger: A disavowed IMF agent and skilled pilot recruited by Ethan to assist him
 Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: A disavowed IMF agent and skilled computer hacker recruited by Ethan to assist him
 Vanessa Redgrave as Max: An illegal arms dealer
 Kristin Scott Thomas as Sarah Davies: An IMF agent and Ethan's partner who is a surveillance expert
 Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Hannah Williams: An IMF agent and field operative in Phelps' team
 Emilio Estevez as Jack Harmon: An IMF agent and equipment technician in Phelps' team. Estevez went uncredited in the role.
 Rolf Saxon as William Donloe: A CIA analyst at Langley
 Marcel Iureş as Alexander Golitsyn: An IMF agent posing as a rogue agent to lure out the mole in Prague

Additional cast members include Karel Dobrý and Andreas Wisniewski as Max's henchmen, Annabel Mullion as an IMF agent posing as the flight attendant on Ethan's plane, Olegar Fedoro as an IMF agent during the Kyiv sequence, and Morgan Deare as Ethan's uncle Donald Hunt.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, 66% of 65 reviews are positive. The average rating is 6.10/10. On Metacritic, the movie has a score of 59 out of 100 based on 29 critic reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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Category:1996 action movies
Category:1996 thriller movies
Category:1990s action thriller movies
Category:1996 adventure movies
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