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Mission: Impossible (1996) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-06-27 22:15:01
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🎵 insert one of the best movie themes ever 🎶

Thank you so much to Yoshi1990 for requesting this on my Reactr page. Definitely a series I wanted to get to eventually, maybe I should have already at this point, but better late than never! Please enjoy and I'm looking forward to your comments! [Direct link here.]

✦ KL

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Mission: Impossible (1996) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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HugoBoss435

Yes! Just in time for the weekend. And so the journey begins…

Tyler Foster

While it isn't until a bit later that the series gets into the kind of stunts it became known for, these first movies still have some very cool stunts in them. In particular, the stunt you've singled out in the image above is the one that gave Cruise the first taste of doing stunts. He was content to leave the jump out of the restaurant to the stunt people until it wasn't looking like DePalma wanted, and one of the stuntmen told Cruise that it wasn't just about the technical aspects of the stunt, it was also about acting. That piqued his curiosity. As you can guess, I haven't watched this yet, given it's only been up for 15 minutes, but as it says in the credits, this is based on a television show. Not only that, but the character played by Jon Voight, Mr. Phelps, is actually one of the primary characters on the show, where he was played by a different actor, who declined to be in the film because he didn't buy the character's arc in this movie. (I believe Kittridge's assistant Barnes is also from the show, which I have never seen.) In the grand scheme of things, understanding the connections to the show aren't very important, in part because this is one of the few TV-to-movie adaptations I can think of off-hand that has really eclipsed the source material (a combination of old shows having a tendency to endure less easily than old movies, and also because the movies established their own hallmarks and became iconic pop culture in their own right). Also, coincidentally, RIP Lalo Schifrin, composer of that iconic original theme song, who passed away yesterday. (I thought he was already dead!)

Bryan Dempsey

Ahem. To clarify it’s one of the best tv show themes ever. It was a tv series in the 1960’s and a revival series in the 1980’s before Tom Cruise brought it to cinemas. But your point stands. I remember the summer this came out. My mom threw my younger brother a Mission Impossible themed birthday. And I made tapes telling invitees their mission, should they choose to accept it, was to come to the birthday party and gave the day/time. I also inserted the sound of an explosion 5 seconds after I told them it would self destruct. Everyone loved it. Looking forward to a long overdue rewatch+reaction this weekend. Nice one Yoshi1990!

Movies with KL

I had no clue that it was a TV show... TWICE! 😅 Enjoy the rewatch!

Steve Mercier

Fantastic series! The second one is probably my least favorite (from one of my favorite directors), but even it has its moments. These ones really do get better with each one that follows. Very fucking cool.

HugoBoss435

The 2nd one is easily by far the worst of them all. We don’t talk about part 2, lol.

HugoBoss435

FYI - the entire movie is shown in the intro segment with the theme song. You will notice this now with all the movies moving forward.

Yoshi1990

This is my favorite movie in the series. But the 4th one makes a close 2nd place. I actually really like the train scene for its more realistic take. The high winds of a fast moving train, the characters needing to stay low and close to the "floor" so they don't get blown off the train. Most action train scenes have the characters standing and fighting. Sure that is fun, but it always ruins my immersion. And tomorrow I'll go see the new Mission Impossible in theaters.

Movies with KL

Have a great time tomorrow! Thanks again for the request!

DarthChef

This will be a fun ride. I understand the underwhelming response to the 2nd film, but I believe that it helps to set the table for the rest of the movies. Thank you for choosing to accept the mission.

Nathan Jasper

We absolutely talk about part 2. Just because it's ranked the lowest doesn't mean it's bad. It's a bit...dramatic... but definitely still a good action flick.

Tyler Foster

I would imagine it depends on the type of train. The train in this movie is a bullet train, but I think the kinds of trains people frequently fought or walked on in Westerns aren't actually going so fast you wouldn't be able to stand and move around on top of one (even if it would probably be a good deal more windy).

Tyler Foster

Now that I've watched the reaction, some more thoughts! In addition to Emilio and Jon Voight, you have also seen Ving Rhames, who played Luther before, and not just in Con Air. On the channel, he was Marsellus Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, the gangster after Bruce Willis' Butch, and off the channel, many people know him as the voice of Cobra Bubbles in the original animated Lilo & Stitch. Not only was Cruise as Waltzer a makeup effect, it and all the other makeup effects in the movie were by none other than Rob Bottin, the mad genius who gave us the gloopy, GOATed practical effects of John Carpenter's The Thing. While you said in the outro you were a little confused, the movie had a bit of a reputation back in 1996 for being confusing. The two scenes that seemed to throw people the most were the other IMF team in the initial operation, and then the sequence where Ethan is verbally acting like he buys Jim's story about Kittridge being the mole while he is imagining the truth, including the moment where he first envisions Claire blowing up Hannah and then, out of hope that Claire is innocent, re-imagines it with Jim crawling out of the water and doing it himself. In reality, the only detail that I noticed you missed during the reaction was that Sarah does not refuse to abort like Ethan; she's followed Jim's instructions and cut all radio communication, so when Ethan is telling her to abort, she simply can't hear him anymore. When Ethan is moving his arms and legs around to keep himself balanced after Krieger drops him, Cruise put quarters in the tips of his shoes to help keep his balance. Director Brian De Palma loves to use the camera in interesting ways, including lengthy unbroken shots, POV, and use of "split diopter," which allows for those shots where both the foreground and background are in focus at the same time. He is also a dedicated devotee of Alfred Hitchcock. The killing of Ethan's team upfront is dictated by the plot, but in De Palma's hands it is also sort of an echo of Psycho. In addition to Emilio, the woman playing Sarah, Kristin Scott Thomas, is a very famous well-known actor, so it's akin to killing off Janet Leigh in the middle of Psycho. I will also say, without elaborating on what it's like, that I like the second movie. I understand why it's contentious, but I think as long as you approach it with an open mind, you'll have fun, and you'll get to see the work of a different director, John Woo, with his own stylistic flourishes. I won't say which one, but I'd say a different entry goes at the bottom of the pile -- and I still enjoy it.

Sam

I appreciate why you're not saying which one is at the bottom of your pile—you don't want to create expectations, etc—but, I am super curious to know. Maybe you could hint at it using an ingenious code that only those who have seen all M:I movies would be able to decipher?

Tyler Foster

I thought about this when I was posting and I would say I think most people agree the one I'm talking about has the most memorable opening scene and villain.

Bryan Dempsey

The original series ran for 7 seasons, the revival for 2 seasons. I remember some of the original because my mom loved it and it used to rerun early in my childhood and I saw a few episodes of the sequel series. Both series had Jim Phelps, played by the same actor for the full run. I know my mom was so upset they had Jim Phelps be the bad guy in the movie. I don’t know that she’s ever gotten over that. Imagine the lead of your favorite tv series returning in a big budget film as the main villain. They really did do the character dirty. But it also kept those fans guessing. Regarding the music, this is the least Danny Elfman score I’ve ever heard. But for me it also fades into the background until the theme music kicks in, which Danny Elfman did not compose. Enjoyed your reaction. Looking forward to the next one. Which I only saw the one time 25 years ago.

Sam

I had a suspicion it was that one. Funnily enough, it's definitely near the top of my pile—if not the top. So, it seems we are both in the minority, but just in opposite directions :) Regardless, I'll be very interested to read your thoughts when we get to it. namaste 🙏

Onno Smits

Great stuff! Looking forward to more of them. 👍

WastedPo

So, I went away for a while, and I come back to you starting this series. I love this series, but for me, it officially starts with MI3. I feel like that's when they really, finally get a grasp on who Ethan Hunt is as a character and what the tone of the series is meant to be. I will say that I personally feel that the next one... well--it could've ended the series. And so that's another reason why the third one is so important. It basically re-imagines what the series is going forward, allowing it to continue. (I feel like after MI2, if they'd never made another one, audiences would've been fine if it had ended right then.) Now, don't get me wrong . Some people like the next one. So don't let my comment above affect your enjoyment. I'm just saying that if you don't happen to enjoy the next one, that's fine.