Mission: Impossible Review

Mission: Impossible

Release Date: 26th June 1996 - Australia

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures (presents)

Cruise/Wagner Productions

Distribution

Paramount Pictures Australia

Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 110 minutes

Budget: $80,000,000

Box Office Gross: $457,696,359 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

Jim Phelps was on a

mission to Prague to

prevent the theft of

classified material. The

members of Phelps' team

were his wife, Claire and

trusted partner Ethan Hunt.

Unfortunately, the mission

failed when something

went wrong, leaving Ethan

Hunt as the sole survivor.

After reporting the failed

mission, Kittridge, who heads

the agency, suspects Ethan of

being to blame for the failed

mission. Now on the run,

Hunt enlists brilliant hacker

Luther Stickell and maverick

pilot Franz Krieger to

infiltrate a heavily guarded

CIA building and retrieve a

secret computer file that will

prove he is innocent.

Cast

Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt

Jon Voight - Jim Phelps

Emmanuelle Beart - Claire

Phelps

Henry Czerny - Eugene

Kittridge

Jean Reno - Franz Krieger

Ving Rhames - Luther Stickell

Kristin Scott Thomas - Sarah Davies

Vanessa Redgrave - Max

Ingeborga Dapkunaite - Hannah Williams

Karel Dobry - Matthias

David Shaeffer - Diplomat Rand Housman

Rudolf Pechan - Mayor Brandl

Gaston Šubert - Jaroslav Reid
Marcel Iures - Alexander Golitsyn

Dale Dye - Frank Barnes

Ion Caramitru - Zozimov

Emilo Estevez - Jack Harnon

(Uncredited)
Rolf Saxon - CIA Analyst William Donloe
Garrick Hagon - CNN Reporter

Laura Brook - Margaret Hunt

Morgan Deare - Donald Hunt

Crew
Director - Brian de Palma

Based on the Television Series - Bruce Geller

Story/Screenplay - David Koepp

Story - Steven Zallian

Screenplay - Robert Towne
Executive Producer - Paul Hitchcock

Producers - Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner

Casting Director - Mali Finn

Production Designer - Norman Reynolds

Conceptual Artists - Tom Southwell

and Dick Lasley

Supervising Art Director - Fred Hole

Assistant Art Director - David Lee

Set Decorator - Peter Howitt

Special Makeup Effects - Rob Bottin
Chief Makeup Designer - Lois Burwell

Key Makeup Artist - Amanda Knight

Chief Hair Stylist - Eithne Fennel

Hair Stylist - Lisa Tomblin

Costume Designers - Penny Rose and
Timothy Everest (Uncredited)

Wardrobe Supervisor - Ken Crouch

Director of Photography - Stephen H. Burum

Second Unit Director of Photography -

Ernest Day

Steadicam Operator - Larry McConkey

Aerial Cameraperson: Second Unit Scotland -

David B. Nowell

Aerial Cameraman: Washington Unit - Michael Kelem

Location Manager: Second Unit Scotland - Robin Higgs

Unit Production Manager - Steve Harding

Unit Manager First Assistant: Second Unit

Scotland - Kevin de la Noy

First Assistant Director - Chris Soldo

Second Assistant Director - Michael Stevenson

Second Unit Director - Eric Schwab
Stunt Coordinator - Greg Powell

Helicopter Coordinator/Pilot: Second Unit Scotland -

David Paris

Helicopter Pilot: Second Unit Scotland -

Marc Woolf

Special Effects Coordinator - Lyn Nicholson

Special Effects Supervisor: All Effects Company -
Eric Allard

Visual Effects Supervisor - Richard Yuricich

Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM - John Knoll

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM - Joe Letteri
Visual Effects Producers: CFC - Dennis Michelson
and Alison O'Brien

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - George Hull

Creative Advisor: ILM - Dennis Muren

Visual Effects Director of Photography: ILM, London

Bluescreen Photography Unit - Kim Marks

Visual Effects Director of Photography: ILM,

Helicopter Crash Sequence Unit - Martin Rosenberg

Visual Effects Stage Manager: ILM, Helicopter Crash

Sequence Unit - Edward T. Hirsh

Supervising Model Maker: ILM, Helicopter Crash

Sequence Unit - Steve Gawley

Computer/Video Effects Supervisor - Andrew Eio

Computer Graphics Supervisors: ILM -

Tom L. Hutchinson and George Murphy

Senior Digital Effects Artists: ILM - Patrick T. Myers

and Andy White

Digital Matte Artist: ILM - Paul Huston

Digital Animatic/Pre-Visualization Artist (Uncredited):

ILM - David Dozoretz

Sabre Compositing/Lead Inferno Artist (Uncredited):

ILM - Sheena Duggal

Editor - Paul Hirsch

Supervising Sound Editor - Tom Bellfort

Sound Designer - Christopher Boyes

Sound Effects Editors - Christopher Scarabosio

and Robert Shoup

Re-Recording Mixer/Score Recordist

and Mixer - Shawn Murphy

Re-Recording Mixers - Gary Rydstrom,

Gary Summers and Anand Pawar (Uncredited)

Additional Re-Recording Mixers - Ron Bartlett

and Chris Jenkins

Dialogue Editors - Michael Silvers and

Gwendolyn Yates Whittle

Foley Artists - Tom Barwick and Dennie Thorpe

Foley Mixer - Tony Eckert

Foley Editors - Marian Wilde,

Matthew Wood and Tammy Fearing (Uncredited)

Music - Danny Elfman

Composer: Theme from Mission: Impossible -
Lalo Schifrin

Performers/Producers: Theme from Mission:

Impossible - Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton

Review
While being the first of the four movies, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (M: I) is an unforgettable spy movie with a clever and deceptive storyline. It is a blend of spy-stylised espionage action mixed with humour and romance and brilliantly directed by Brian de Palma. The things in the movie I praise are the acting of Tom Cruise and Jon Voight, who both delivered their roles with conviction and enthusiasm and the final but fantastic action sequence, which involves a chopper and a train.

M: I1 was a great movie, but not as good as the recent M: I movie Ghost Protocol. There are talks of a fifth Impossible movie that would star Cruise, and Brad Bird might not be directing it.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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