MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG-13
110 minutes

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format: 35mm

Mission Impossible (1996)

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After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the television series featuring team leader Jim Phelps, director Brian DePalma's adaptation focuses not on Phelps (Jon Voight) but his protégé, Ethan Hunt (a reserved Tom Cruise), who becomes a fugitive after taking the blame for a botched operation. He responds by gathering together a group of fellow renegades, and he is soon maneuvering his way through a twisted series of double crosses that mainly serve as excuses for spectacular high-tech action sequences. Much of the activity revolves around a missing computer disk, with the film's most famous scene depicting Hunt's delicate efforts to retrieve the disk from a secure, well-alarmed room in CIA headquarters. [www.allrovi.com]

Exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable.
      -- Desson Thomson, Washington Post. Read this review.