Mission: Impossible

[1996, Movie]

Mission: Impossible: Review

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Brian De Palma's spectacularly successful big-screen adaptation of the classic TV series is a gutsy attempt to reconfigure the timeworn espionage formula. Although this presold blockbuster is far from a complete success on De Palma's terms — it doesn't subvert the genre but gives it a surprisingly gentle goose — it's nimble, expertly contrived summer entertainment that doesn't insult the intelligence. Read the complete review for Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible: Cast & Details

Year: 1996
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Tom Cruise: Ethan Hunt
Jon Voight: Jim Phelps
Emmanuelle Beart: Claire
Henry Czerny: Kittridge
Jean Reno: Krieger
Ving Rhames: Luther

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Mission: Impossible: TV Guide News

Redstone Won't Keep Cruise from Fourth Mission | Movie News | 5/6/2008
Despite cutting ties with Tom Cruise in 2006, Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. chairman Sumner Redstone said he has no problem with the actor continuing to star in Paramount's Mission: Impossible franchise. Viacom is Paramount's parent company.Citing "recent conduct," Redstone severed a 14-year relationship with Cruise after his couch-jumping appearance on Oprah and verbal slugfest with Today's Matt Lauer, kicking Cruise and his producing partner off the Paramount Pictures lot. But according to the AP, Redstone told a reporter at a conference in South Korea that he will not keep Cruise, who is already in talks to star in the fourth Impossible film, from returning to the franchise."I consider Tom Cruise a great actor and a good friend," Redstone said. "And if Paramount decides — and they will make the decision — to move ahead with him, I will not object."Do you think Redstone made a mistake by cutting Tom loose to begin with? Are you psyched for a Mission: Impossible 4? —... read more
At the Movies: Pitt to Take Over Cruise's Mission? | Today's News: Our Take | 9/22/2006
Now that the relationship between Paramount and Tom Cruise has soured, might the Mission: Impossible franchise be turned over to another of Hollywood's biggest stars? A rep for Brad Pitt tells the New York Daily News that rumblings of the fair-haired hunk heading up the next Mission are "totally made up".... Justin Long and Maggie Q are joining Bruce Willis in Live Free or Die Hard, playing a sidekick for McClane and a world-class hacker, respectively.... Charlize Theron and Tommy Lee Jones are in talks to play a police detective and a father searching for his supposedly AWOL (but perhaps murdered) Iraq War-vet son in Crash director Paul Haggis' next project. read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/21/2006
Mission: Impossible heavyweight Ving Rhames has joined the cast of the Smallville spi read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/1/2006
In a first for network television, episodes of Survivor: Panama - Exile Island, debuting this Thursday at 8 pm/ET read more
The Watercooler | 1/30/2006
Screen Actors Guild Awards The night actors pat each other on the back. Much like the Golden Globes, read more