Adventure
Action
Thriller
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.
Directors
Tom Cruise
Ethan Hunt
Jon Voight
Jim Phelps
Emmanuelle Béart
Claire
Henry Czerny
Kittridge
Jean Reno
Krieger
Ving Rhames
Luther
Kristin Scott Thomas
Sarah Davies
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Hannah
Valentina Yakunina
Drunken Female IMF Agent
Marek Vašut
Drunken Male IMF Agent
Nathan Osgood
Kittridge Technician
John McLaughlin
TV Interviewer
Rolf Saxon
CIA Analyst William Donloe
Karel Dobrý
Matthias
Andreas Wisniewski
Max's Companion
David Shaeffer
Diplomat Rand Housman
Rudolf Pechan
Mayor Brandl
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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 was so disappointed!
Now when I watched it for the second time with my son I actually liked it a lot more. I still think it is sad that the script writers felt they had to introduce all these chock elements but trying to look past those this is a pretty good movie. I still do not think it is truly a Mission Impossible movie in the good old style of the series though.
It is a very good action/thriller movie though. Tom Cruise is really not bad in the role of Ethan Hunt and so are the rest of the actors. He is performing quite a few spectacular stunts and there are a decent amount of high tech stuff in the movie. Sure, some of the stunts and action scenes are perhaps a bit convoluted but it provides for some good cinemagic and it is fiction after all.
If this movie would not have been labelled Mission Impossible I would probably have given it another star but I cannot bring myself to completely overlook how far from the original inspiration it has strayed.
Dark Jedi13 May, 2018
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