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This listing is for Mission Impossible VHS Video Tape Tom Cruise.
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno
Directors: Brian De Palma
Writers: Bruce Geller, David Koepp, Robert Towne, Steven Zaillian
Producers: J.C. Calciano, Paul Hitchcock, Paula Wagner
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Language: English, French
Rated: PG-13 - Parents Strongly Cautioned
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Paramount
VHS Release Date: November 12, 1996
Run Time: 110 minutes
A flashy, splashy summer-movie blockbuster that's fun and exciting without being mindless? That's the impossible mission accomplished by director Brian De Palma, star-coproducer Tom Cruise, and the crack team of Mission: Impossible. Based on the '60s TV show and an almost impenetrably complex (but nonetheless thrilling) original story by David Koepp (Jurassic Park) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), with a screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo), Mission: Impossible begins with veteran agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his expert crew embarking on a mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But nothing is what it seems. The nail-biting set piece--always a signature of director De Palma (Carrie, The Untouchables)--in which Cruise is lowered from the ceiling to retrieve information from a computer in a high-security vault--is an instant classic. But perhaps even more impressive, at least in retrospect, is a flashback sequence in which two characters attempt to reconstruct a series of events from multiple points of view. It's pretty daring and sophisticated stuff for a big-budget spy movie, but brains were always what put the Mission: Impossible team ahead of the competition, anyway, no?
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