

Mission: Impossible
Expect the impossible.
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $80M
- Box office
- $457.7M
- Language
- English
- mask
- mission
- london, england
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- computer
- paris, france
- undercover
- espionage
- secret mission
- arms deal
- spy
- secret identity
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Produced in
United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePG-13Westwood, California20 May 1996
- TheatricalPG-1322 May 1996
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG5 Jul 1996
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM26 Jun 1996
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG22 May 1996
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical4 Jul 1996
AustriaAT
- Theatrical8 Aug 1996
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1423 Oct 1996
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1412 Jul 1996
ChileCL
- Theatrical12 Sept 1996
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical6 Aug 1996
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+12 Sept 1996
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1123 Aug 1996
- Physical11Blu-ray3 Jan 2012
- Physical114K Ultra HD2 Jul 2018
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Mission: Impossible was released on 22 May 1996.
Audience reviews
7- G4/10
Gimly
8/15/2016
While the sequences that _Mission: Impossible_ is most famous for (the ceiling-descent and train-top) are truly thrilling, absolutely everything in between these scenes is obvious and uninspired. Rarely can a movie have you so completely engaged one minute, and then immediately back to checking the time the next. An important film, pop-culturally speaking, but not a very good one. _Final rating:★★ - Had some th…
- D6/10
Dark Jedi
5/13/2018
When I first saw this movie I did not like it at all. My main gripe with the movie was (and is) that it did not feel like a Mission Impossible movie. Spoilers ahead! In the original series the team always succeeded, at least in the episodes I watched. However, the movie starts off with a big failure. Then to make matters worse we learn that Mr. Phelps, one of the original lead characters, is actually a traitor. I …
- W6/10
Wuchak
5/7/2021
_**Well done spy/caper thriller with Tom Cruise and an eye-rolling Scooby-Doo element**_ The Impossible Missions Force has a mission at a Prague gala concerning a CIA non-official cover list, but it doesn’t go as planned. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Clair Phelps (Emmanuelle Béart) then team-up with two disavowed agents (Ving Rhames and Jean Reno) to steal the real NOC list at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia,…
- T8/10
The Movie Mob
10/21/2022
**Mission: Impossible thrives on a more localized story, trading massive stunts and action set pieces for a greater focus on spycraft, theft, and espionage.** Mission: Impossible operates on a much smaller scale than its successors and benefits from a more contained story. The action and suspense are more personal, and the danger more intimate than in later installments. The first entry in the Mission: Impossible …
- G10/10
GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023
Man, when this came out I was thinking that we are going to have another James Bond franchise only with an American and I was super stoked about it. Unfortunately I got my wish. This is really the only one worth watching and M:I2 just destroyed the series that didn't have the sense to die. But....what you have here is 3 Days of the Condor, directed by De Palma, with lots of action. No, I'm not joking, it's r…
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