Mission: Impossible (1996)

Note Générale:

6,8/10   

Réalisateur:

Brian De Palma

Scénaristes (WGA):

Bruce Geller (television series)
David Koepp (story) ...

Date de sortie:

22 mai 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Aventure | Thriller

Accroche:

Expect the Impossible

Intrigue:

An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.

Plot Keywords:

Mission | Spy | Stealing | Traitor | Espionage

Récompenses:

3 wins & 6 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

call it a guilty pleasure

Ensemble

Tom Cruise	...	Ethan Hunt
Jon Voight	...	Jim Phelps
Emmanuelle Béart	...	Claire Phelps (as Emmanuelle Beart)
Henry Czerny	...	Eugene Kittridge
Jean Reno	...	Franz Krieger
Ving Rhames	...	Luther Stickell
Kristin Scott Thomas	...	Sarah Davies (as Kristin Scott-Thomas)
Vanessa Redgrave	...	Max
Dale Dye	...	Frank Barnes
Marcel Iures	...	Alexander Golitsyn
Ion Caramitru	...	Zozimov
Ingeborga Dapkunaite	...	Hannah Williams
Valentina Yakunina	...	Drunken Female IMF Agent
Marek Vasut	...	Drunken Male IMF Agent
Nathan Osgood	...	Kittridge Technician

Autre(s) titre(s):

Mission Impossible

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some intense action violence.

Durée:

110 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais | Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

2,35 : 1

Son:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Classification:

Ireland:PG | Malaysia:18SG | Brazil:Livre | New Zealand:M | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG-13

Lieux de tournage:

Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Société:

Paramount Pictures

Anecdotes:

The bridge over the Vlatava River in Prague where Jim (Jon Voight) is "killed" is the same bridge that Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is sitting during the end of the movie xXx (2002).

Goofs:

Continuité: At CIA headquarters, the fire alarms in three sections are tripped. Then Luther hacks into the alarm system to trip the alarm in Section 21. Later in the Situation Room, the alarm is displayed in a corner of the wall display, but Section 21 isn't lit up.

Guillemet:

Eugene Kittridge: [after Hunt's team was killed and meets up with Kittridge in some kind of Aquarium/Restaurant place] Ethan. Ethan, I can't tell on how sorry I am. I know how Jim ment to you personally, as well as professionally.
[Slides Hunt a Passport]
Eugene Kittridge: Here is the usual stuff. You follow?
Ethan Hunt: [Muffled] Yeah. I follow.
Eugene Kittridge: I think we lost anough agents for one night.
Ethan Hunt: You mean, *I* lost enough agents for one night.
Eugene Kittridge: You seem to be bent on blaming yourself, Ethan.
Ethan Hunt: There was another IMF team tonight.
Eugene Kittridge: I don't quite follow you, Ethan.
Ethan Hunt: [Looking up to Kittridge] Well, let's see you can follow me around the room.
[...]

Connexions:

Référencé sur 99euro-films (2001)

Bande son:

Theme From Mission: Impossible

call it a guilty pleasure

Every now and again, you will come upon a film that you know really isn't the best movie in the world, or even a particularly good movie on its own. And yet, despite its glaring flaws and imperfectness and lack of completion, you do find yourself strangely attached to it because it has a charm to itself that keeps you interested. Call it a guilty pleasure.

Mission: Impossible is my guilty pleasure. It's based on a 1960s television series created by Bruce Geller and the movie with Tom Cruise is kind of like a mash-up between The Bourne Identity and the James Bond pictures. Basically, the standard spy movie. Tom Cruise plays a spy who is falsely accused of betrayal to his organization and finds himself working with some unlikely partners to track down the real mole in the system and expose him and clear his name. Now, this is a plot as old as the hills and Mission: Impossible works with it just as well as the others. Not enormously well, but on an acceptable level.

Tom Cruise is great as the film's action hero lead, unfortunately his supporting cast is quite uninteresting. Another defect worth noting is the film's convoluted plot, which sometimes is hard to follow. This is caused by a screenplay in need of revisions. That's one of the film's major weaknesses and really the reason why it's just a standard spy movie with lots of cool gadgets instead of something special.

But that's really my only significant complaint about Mission: Impossible. Those rather small, unimportant defects left aside, and leaving the movie to its own devices, it works out well especially in its action sequences. Again, it's all been done before, sometimes better sometimes worse, but that doesn't meant it's boring or overdrawn. In fact, sometimes it's very primal. There is one scene in particular that I found intense and suspenseful on a hair-raising level. The scene goes on for an unremittingly long time, keeping us on the edges of our seats, and the best thing of all is that it's silent. The filmmakers could have chosen to go along with some dark, heavy music or some ominous heartbeat sound effects to put us in the same shoes with the characters, but the fact that it's quiet—too quiet for our liking—makes it so much more compelling. I only wish the rest of the movie was like this scene. Then it really would have been special.

Nevertheless, De Palma's Mission: Impossible works out well for what it is and unless you're not a fan of the standard spy movies or action pictures in particular, of if you have your standards and hopes up too high, I imagine you will enjoy it. Again, it is kind of a guilty pleasure, but hey, it was a lot of fun.