Mission: Impossible (also known in the Blu-ray release as M:I) is a 1996 American spy film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise, Jean Reno and Emmanuelle B?art. Based on the television series of the same name, the plot follows a new agent, Ethan Hunt and his mission to uncover the mole who has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team. Work on the script had begun early with filmmaker Sydney Pollack on board, before De...
Phelps explains to Ethan why he choose money over his job & country.
Under the pretense of talking about Kittridge, Phelps seems to be taking abou...
The email messages Ethan sent out for Max illicit a response. As a result of ...
The email messages Ethan sent out for Max illicit a response. As a result of ...
In the baggage car Ethan dons a pair of glasses that transmit a picture to Ki...
In the baggage car on the train, Phelps has a gun trained on Ethan.
Ethan calls Kittridge from a pay phone in London. He stays on the line just l...
Luther sits with mouth agape listening to what they are up against. As Ethan ...
While Kittridge talks Ethan throws the explosive gum against the large aquari...
Jack is killed in the elevator. Jim is being followed. Ethan breaks protocol.
Ethan sits at the table across from Kittridge. He rubs his face with his hand...
At the rendezvous point, a resturant in Prague, when Kittridge makes his susp...
Kittridge has every intention of taking Ethan in, believing he is the mole. E...
When the hood is removed from Ethan's head he is sitting across the desk from...
Ethan and Jack have a little fun throwing a few jabs at Jim while in the safe...
Claire stands in the safe house with Ethan pointing a gun at her. She looks d...
Ethan returns to the table of a side walk cafe after calling his mother in th...
Ethan attempts to wet Luther's apatite. Luther still isn't quite buying in.
Luther simultaneous accepts and denies the credit for a computer hack that Et...
After his team is killed, Ethan, sitting across from Kittridge in a Prague re...
Ethan cozies up to Max and attempts to learn her real name. She doesn't bite.
As they sit around the table planing the Prague mission Jack and Ethan take t...
In Prague during their planning stage, Jack gives Ethan what appears to be a ...
Ethan turns down Luther's offer to return to Langley with him. He rises from ...
Sitting in a sidewalk cafe, Luther tips his glass. Ethan laughs.
The deal done, Luther and Ethan raise their glasses.
The trains is stopped in the Tunnel after the helicopter driven by Franz expl...
Ethan looks over at Phelps who's holding onto the opposite landing gear. He s...
Phelps believed that Ethan would believe that Claire wasn't complicit in his ...
Claire questions Ethan while Jim holds him at gun point in the baggage car. K...
In the baggage car on the train Phelps has a gun trained on Ethan.
Claire enters the baggage car. She's not at all surprised to see Jim alive.
Their attempts to transmit the NOC list from their laptop on the train are be...
On a London train, Max is ecstatic when the disk Ethan's left for her proves ...
Sitting across the table from him, Jim tells Ethan why an agent would go roug...
Ethan and Jim fill each other in. Jim coughs and struggles due to the wounds ...
After calling Kittridge from a phone both and hanging up before he could comp...
After Ethan pulls the real disk out the trash where Franz dropped it, Claire ...
Franz, realizing he's been out maneuvered by Ethan resorts to plan B to prote...
Having learned of the security breech against Langley Kittridge addresses Don...
Luther watching and directing Ethan over closed circuit, views the monitor in...
After slipping into Langley undercover as firemen, Ethan stops Franz from kni...
Franz and Luther look at Ethan with considerable reservation. Ethan smiles ba...
Luther tells Ethan that he'd have to be present at the terminal to hack it. E...
Ethan gets Luther and Franz buy into the mission. However Luther does have an...
Ethan attempts to wet Luther's apatite. Luther still isn't quite buying in.
When Luther expresses doubts in the mission himself, Ethan challenges Luther'...
Franz rises and paces. Luther less deterred by the scope of the proposed miss...
Franz expresses his doubt in the viability of the mission Ethan and Claire ar...
Franz can only scoff at the idea of hitting CIA headquarters in Langley, Virg...
Ethan returns from his meet with Max with a pile of cash. Seeing it Claire co...
After making their exit prior to Kittridge's arrival, Max and Ethan ride in t...
Kittridge turns to exit Max's office then stops, turns back toward Barnes, sa...
Kittridge, following the homing device in the disk arrives at Max's location....
Max is logically suspicious of Ethan's warning. She eyes him cautiously, then...
Ethan tells Max that not only is the disk worthless but that it contains a ho...
Max rises from her seat, comes around the desk then bends down, her face inch...
The hood is removed from Ethan's head. He sits across the table from Max. In ...
Ethan wakes from his slumber at the desk to find Claire tapping him on the sh...
Ethan's preparing the explosive under the table and looking at Kittridge with...
Realizing where Kittridge is going with his narrative, Ethan reaches in his p...
After the entire team is eliminated with the exception of himself, Ethan rend...
Ethan refuses to allow the stolen intelligence to end up in the wrong hands. ...
Sarah and Ethan hide under the elevator and Jack on top it it while the team ...
Once in the elevator, thanks to Jack's slow but effective handy work, Ethan l...
Jack, in the elevator shaft, responds to the criticism he is getting from his...
Jack is a bit slow in infiltrating the system and implanting Sarah's clearanc...
During the mission planning stage, Jack hands Ethan a stick of red and blue gum.
Senator John Waltzer is seen on television talking to the shows host about th...
Jack, sitting right next to Sarah, speaks into his watch asking he if she can...
Phelps continues the briefing. He gets a bit of light static from Sarah.
Phelps lights a cigarette to cover the smoke from the tape self destructing.
Kittridge briefs Phelps via tape during his flight.
Phelps inserts the tape he received from the stewardess into the player.
A woman posing as an airline stewardess is Mr. Phelps contact. She delivers a...
Nervous, Ethan administers the drug to Claire to revive her. He breaths a sig...
After the subject gives them the information they seek, they put him out. Eth...
Claire lies on the bed. She appears to be dead. Jack, concerned for her well ...
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