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Directed by | Brian De Palma |
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Based on | Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller |
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Cinematography | Stephen H. Burum |
Edited by | Paul Hirsch |
Music by | Danny Elfman |
Production company | Cruise/Wagner Productions |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures[1] |
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Running time | 110 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $80 million[3] |
Box office | $457.7 million[3][4] |
Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy movie starring Tom Cruise and directed by Brian De Palma. Set after the 1966 television series of the same name and its 1988 sequel series (canonically set six years later after the latter), it is the first installment of the Mission: Impossible movie series. It is set in London, Prague and Virginia.
Mission: Impossible was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 22, 1996. The movie was successful and it led to a long-running movie series, starting with Mission: Impossible II (2000), followed by Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and an untitled eighth movie in 2025.
Additional cast members include Karel Dobrý and Andreas Wisniewski as Max's henchmen, Annabel Mullion as an IMF agent posing as the flight attendant on Ethan's plane, Olegar Fedoro as an IMF agent during the Kyiv sequence, and Morgan Deare as Ethan's uncle Donald Hunt.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 66% of 65 reviews are positive. The average rating is 6.10/10.[5] On Metacritic, the movie has a score of 59 out of 100 based on 29 critic reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6]
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