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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 157 reviews)
Sales Rank: 9036
Category: DVD
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Dale Dye, Marcel Iures, Ion Caramitru, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Valentina Yakunina, Marek Vasut, Nathan Osgood, John Mclaughlin, Rolf Saxon, Karel Dobry, Andreas Wisniewski, David Shaeffer
Director: Brian De Palma
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Label: Paramount
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 110 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 097360420449
EAN: 0097360420449
ASIN: B000EGDB10
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
Description
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.
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Customer Reviews: Read 152 more reviews...
 NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THIS EDITION July 9, 2006
I am a big fan of this movie but there's nothing special about this, so-called "Collector's Edition" which only seems to have been issued in order to have something tied up for the release of MI3.
There are a few short clips on how the incredible set pieces were made but no new interviews, deleted scenes, commentaries, etc. The featurettes included are as shallow as they can get. This is too bad given the many years we had been waiting for a special edition of this movie. Compare this to the incredible SEs Fox has been issuing of movies such as the Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Nine to Five, Planet of the Apes, etc. and it feels like somebody at Paramount ought to be fired.
 brilliant. July 9, 2006
a reviewer below me called the storyline to this movie "a jumbled mess". oh my, how wrong he is. although, i will admit... i did not fully understand the storyline to this movie for TEN years. that doesn't mean it was a jumbled mess, though. it only means that my feeble mind wasn't able to comprehend the depth, detail and layers to it at first. so, TEN years later (2006) i watched it for what was probably the 20th odd time, and i FINALLY understood all of the twists and turns in the storyline and it all came together so beautifully. it was like poetry. it was one of those moments where you sit back and say to yourself "how in the hell can someone write something so ingenious?". so anyways, my point is: this movie has depth. it has layers upon layers upon layers. this is nothing like MI2 or MI3. this is a thinking-mans movie, and it is aesthetically beautiful in a very artistic way. each time you watch it, a new part of the story will reveal itself for you. and that's why i think this is the best M:I movie in the series BY FAR. compared to this one, the other two subsuquent sequals are loud, unintelligent and highly forgettable. like another reviewer said before me... this is one of the best action films i have ever seen. get it.
This review will self destruct in 5 seconds June 16, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The movie isn't really that good because it doesn't have any action. Okay, it has SOME action, but not much. I also don't like the DVD that much. The only bonus thing it has is a teaser trailer. Well, the trailer was cool and the movie had good music--BUT STILL! No, I havent seen the TV show. If all you people don't like this review, you have no right to criticize me because I like all the sequels.
 "Mission" Accepted June 6, 2006
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
"I understand your very upset."
"Kittridge, you've never seen me very upset."
"All right Hunt. Enough is enough. You have bribed, cajoled, & killed & you have done it using loyalties on the inside. You want to shake hands with the devil, thats fine with me. I just want to make sure that you do it in hell."
- IMF Director, Eugene Kittridge informs former team pointman Ethan Hunt he's no angel in "Mission: Impossible"
Based on the popular 60's series, Brian DePalma directs & Tom Cruise stars in the big screen adaption that is "Mission: Impossible".
The mission starts out with Jim Phelps (who else), & his IMF team, accepting a mission to trail & stop a traitor, Alexander Golitsyn, for stealing & selling classified material. The pointman on the mission is Ethan Hunt, With Phelps' wife Claire, Hannah Williams, Jack Harmon, & Sarah Davies rounding out the team.
Things go to hell when Jack is "accidently" killed in an access elevator, Golitsyn is mysteriously killed & Phelps is stabbed to death enroute to the safe house. Hunt tries to stay in contact with the other members of his team only to hear them meet their demise one by one.
With Hunt the only team member left alive, he calls for back up only to have IMF Director Kittridge brand him a traitor & is promptly under arrest.
After narrowly escaping incarceration, Ethan, now a disavowed agent on the run, has to piece together who set him up & try to clear his name.
What's worse, whoever set Hunt up has a meeting with a big time smuggler named Max who is interested in the IMF NOC list, the item that Golitsyn stole. This list has every name and personal I.D. of all agents operating in foreign countries. Smelling a double-cross Ethan has a meeting with Max & posing as the seller informs her that he can get his hands on the real NOC list. Ethan hopes that these turn of events will bring the real IMF traitor out into the open, clearing him of all charges.
"Mission: Impossible" is a film that grew on me. I didn't really think it was that great of a film when I first saw it, until I actually figured out the confusing as all hell plotline. Once the plot clicked with me, I liked the film even more. I wish a lot of other spy films followed "Mission"'s lead.
An enjoyable and smart movie May 11, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I often wish that Hollywood would make more movies that require an IQ above the third grade. The success of this movie, and many like it, exactly proves this point. There were parts that got a little bit confusing, but for the most part it was easy enough to follow.
The action in this movie is pretty awesome. This movie, despite the "smartness", remains an action movie first and foremost. So any action buff should be checking this movie out without a doubt.
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