1996 Directed by Brian De Palma
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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After PULP FICTION maybe the pop masterpiece of the 90s? Probably hyperbole, but minutes after my umpteenth viewing it's the truth.
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Usually a respected auteur like Brian De Palma doesn't get credit for delivering a great piece of pop blockbuster entertainment unless he or she subverts it in some way, deconstructs the genre or introduces some kind of wildly transgressive element like Verhoeven's satire or Scott's formal mayhem, but that's not what De Palma does here. This is more like his Manhunter, where a great director takes pulpy source material and turns it into a meditation on the act of watching, and the romance and excitement of movies themselves. In the opening sequence, IMF are basically established as a film crew, creating a fake scenario in order to get the name of a spy…
94/100
Mission: Impossible is delightfully cheesy, aged to perfection and surrounded by the meatiest strip of bacon ever crafted. It's a tasty and junky blast, from the first frame to the last. Brian De Palma has always been known for his sensual and gleefully silly ventures, all of which possess immaculate form and content. but this is easily his most delicious in regards to spookiness. The set-pieces here are just magnificent, relishing in flawless camerawork and ingenious pacing, and it's all enhanced by Danny Elfman's peerless score. In spite of its commitment to tone, De Palma's film also has a rat complicating things and dangerous chewing gum. Fun, fun, and fun.
If this were made now, Cruise totally would've clung to an actual bullet train. Still, good movie tho
94
Still the gold standard of auteur-franchise-fuckery. De Palma lays out all the traditional crayons and colors inside the lines, yet it still plays like one great big con-job. The *classic* opening, literally dividing its space and revealing itself as a movie-set, is only the beginning of how De Palma constantly expands and constricts his canvas. Shooting wide and large, in the case of the final train/helicopter action set-piece (which is still an all-timer), and shrinking a 'light-bulb' revelation to nothing more than conjoined edits and alternate viewpoints find common ground in his delicious zooms, ghostly steadicam, and operatic tendencies. The looming fog, traveling gazes, and canted angles are right out of early-British-period Hitchcock and Film Noir, but there's a few additions such as exploding chewing gum, floppy-disc-drives, and (gasp!) email. So assured it'll re-wire the brain.
Watching this after loving the McQuarrie M:Is requires an adjustment of expectations. This is very much not an action movie in the same vein as the rest of the series. But it is a pretty solid spy movie, and one that feels very Brian De Palma. I don't know if the plot is substantial enough to totally sustain the entire runtime, but the stuff that's good is very good.
One of those films where it *almost* works but it unfortunately has a weak script and a ton of wasted actors (Jean Reno they did you dirty). Goes way too fast and feels barely an hour long.
Still a fun mix of De Palma's pulp and 90s Cruise cheese with Danny Elfman providing during his peak.
Toda a desconfiança que os jogos de poder da espionagem e as imagens com seus dispositivos diversos, entre o vídeo 4x3 da encenação da tv e o scope das luzes enganosas de Praga e Londres, têm em comum. A diversão de de Palma em testar o quanto sua encenação pode enganar no frame, em como as imagens traduzem as intrigas descartáveis de quem não tem o plano em que confiar. E Tom Cruise, estrela de cinema, que parece estar prestes a explodir em toda cena.
Probably a bit dated, but damn it's still good. How did I not realize De Palma directed this?
score slaps & that scene was fuckin insane bro i was NOT prepared deadass felt like my heart was in my throat literally insanityyy brian de palma is legit insane holy shit that was a classic, that was a classic
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