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Mission: Impossible

1996

Brian De Palma

Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight, Jean Reno ...

6.4

105,799

Action. Mystery. Thriller Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Tom Cruise looks cool and holds our attention while doing neat things that we don't quite understand (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[The story] certainly has enough twists and surprises to keep audiences guessing until the last minute"	POS
United States	Carol Buckland CNN	"It's convoluted and almost incomprehensible (...) The story doesn't hang together, and the cardboard characters do little to plug up the numerous plot holes."	NEG
United Kingdom	William Gallagher BBC	"Four years on, and with a John Woo-directed sequel to compare it to, 'Mission: Impossible' feels a little dated but it is a superior story and a genuinely more effective thriller (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Salisbury Empire	"This is, for the most part, enormous fun. You will not be disappointed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Martin Chilton Telegraph	"Great action sequences (...) Sit back and thrill at the chases (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It's the worst kind of convoluted thriller -- it can never unravel satisfactorily because there's nothing simple at its center, just more confusion."	NEG
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"'Mission: Impossible' is exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable (...) The movie's also an exhilarating tribute to the computer"	POS
United States	Tom Charity Time Out	"De Palma remains a virtuoso puppet-master"	POS
United States	Darren Franich Entertainment Weekly	"It’s easy to forget just how clever and unusual this first film is"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"[A] thrilling extravaganza of jaw-dropping special effects and amazing stunts (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[It] fails to generate much in the way of excitement or intrigue (...) The predictable plot generates little interest (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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