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Actors: Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Tom Cruise, Kristin Scott Thomas
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Mission Impossible |
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An espionage team on assignment in Prague is ambushed and everyone killed except American special agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise). There's a mole somewhere, and suspicion falls on him because he survived. The bigger danger is a plot to steal a computer file that contains the real names, placement, and cover stories of all other covert operatives, so Hunt must identify and stop the real spy without the support of his own organization. This involves fleeing government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, and clinging to a speeding bullet train in the Chunnel. The plot of this 1996 homage to the 1960s TV series is impossible to follow, and the characters shallow to nonexistent. Director Brian DePalma delivers a stylish rush of a film that definitely thrills the viewer but leaves almost nothing after its passing.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Mission Impossible |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- finding a spy/saboteur
The terrorist enemy is...
- spies
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Profession/status:
- spy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- London
- dangerous
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- moving train
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 9 (quite a lot)
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to protect something
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- TV show
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