I love all Mission Impossible movies, LOVE THEM ALL, except maybe part 2, but anyway... ALL ARE GREAT GREAT MOVIES, masterpiece of action and script. But to this day... Mission Impossible 1 is my favorite movie of this franchise, I cannot even explain it, but it's like this movie... HAVE A SOUL... it's like you can... TASTE IT :D.
Loved 2 actually. Personaly, as a fan of the old TV series, while I acknowledge that this is a great movie, I cannot forgive it for turning Jim Phelps into a traitor who would murder his own team.
Agreed, but everyone is all into the nonstop, cool action sequences of the sequels. What I like about this film is that it takes the time to breathe and has a lot of dialogue heavy scenes like this where characters size each other up.
That and while there are over the top action here, the main meat of this movie was the complex espionage scenes. This Cruise didn't have to cling onto a fucking plane to look like a cool spy.
I can imagine if they ask how Ethan knows all this: "I made recommendations for upgrades after I broke in and stole the DCI's calendar during a security test. Twice"
Except He didn't mention any Pentium 1. Listen to Luther, he was talking about future tech like 'Crypto', 'Intelligent systems' and 'Artificial intelligence'.
Because of our conditioning, as well as his clothes, Rhames is still Marcellus Wallace in our minds at the beginning of the scene. And then, 1:25, voila - Luther Stickell has arrived.
That outer keypad really need a box surround so no cams or passers by could record his code! That much worse than you think line just shows the gravity to such a hardened hacker and that Ethan has it all worked out and it wont be easy even to these pros. That 686mhz computer he wants is way fast!! haha least back then it was amazing but dont know how it would go playing doom these days....
But as it turned out, De Palma was a much better fit than John Woo. M:I2 is like a John Woo action movie with nods to the Mission: Impossible universe. That movie is the odd one out in the franchise, I think.
Mission Imposible start fliming in 95 , released in thearter in May 96 27 - 28 years ago MI1 released 1996 MI8 release 2024 Gap between 1st and eight is 28 years
@@gc3k no. The specs anchor the story in a specific time and place, just like the usage of "feet" instead of meters. Funny noone mentions that female guard locked in the windowless high-security passage all day...
There's a lot of intelligence terms and protocols that are just as relevant now as they were 30 years before this 1996 movie, that's how the writers could have kept the movie from aging badly Compare this Jean Reno spy movie with another, Ronin. It's definitely set in the 1990s but it didn't try to wow the audience with 1990s buzzwords
I really do like the movie. My only complaint, and it's a big one, is that no way would Jim Phelps ever become the bad guy. And the sad thing is that if you named the character John Doe the movie wouldn't have suffered at all.
Jean Reno is neither underrated nor underappreciated. He's an international acting superstar. You just feel that way cus his market isn't primarily the English speaking market. He's been called the French De Niro.
The first is still my fav. Mi2 was too lone wolf and didn't feel like an MI movie. Mi3 was a waste of a good cast. The last three have been pretty good, but their focus was more on spectacle than plot and intrigue.
This 1st installment of the M. I. movie franchise has been and will always be my favorite because of Brian DePalma. His love of all things Hitchcock and of New Wave European Cinema really shines forth more so than all the other M. I. films. Even the lighting in such scenes as the restaurant debriefing scene or right after Ethan's escape from that when he is back in the apartment searching for clues to Job 314 have the look of the original Mission Impossible TV series. The only other M. I. film that comes close is Brad Bird's M. I. III: Ghost Protocol. But this first film stands tall and alone as the most elegant and "film noir" of them all. It would still be great as a black and white film. Perhaps even better !!
@@mustafaabbasi1073far from it. Tonally the recent movies are so different from the 1st. First MI is a dark spy thriller, recent ones are more popcorn adventure movies
4:10 "all 3 systems are state of the art" *ALARM BLARE* .... love that transition! Such an entertaining scene with only dialogue just setting up another scene.
@@MRJK87. 20 years ago, Emmanuelle Béart >>> Angelina Jolie IMO and the french is 12 years older. Let's keep this memory, though. In terms of plastic surgery, mistakes have been made.
CIA: "We need an impregnable safe room with multiple state-of-the-art layers of security... oh, and one more thing... it needs a big ass air conditioning vent in the ceiling for people to crawl through."
lol.. "686". Shows how Really dated this tech is. The 686 was a Cyrix CPU release in 1995 (a year before this movie) and wasnt a strong competitor for Intel and AMD's cpus . By this point, the Intel had launched their Pentium Pro. Which given was their 6th generation x86 cpus, one *could* argue its a "686", but nobody really referred to it as such. Also "No modem access". Modems are still a thing today, but they were referring to Dial-up modems here.
sound weight temperature alarms , costly hardware , but the only cctv is to see the corridors , and anyone thinked to put a camera in the room ? 😂😂😂 cia 🏆
Ethan never fired a single shot in this whole movie. which shows the realism of it's espionage theme, people think that real life spies are cool, they get to travel into adventure and get womens like james bond. But in reality they are just a bunch of people trying to live like a shadow, and they only ever use guns if it's really necessary. I really love the realism in this movie, the later movies lost that charm
It’s funny to hear Luther talk about the tech NOW..and what they have today. “…I’m talking about the 686 prototypes with artificial intelligence wrist chips.” Back in the day 686 was a big deal.
Not quite. He could have worked out that she was involved once he realised Krieger was, but he decided that Phelps, who was the biggest mole, could've killed Hannah himself.
They could have wrapped him in a full body suit of neoprene, heat-resistant rubber... But then the neoprene would suffocate him. Just remember to go real fast!
