Plot summary
Ethan Hunt, a point human within Jim Phelps' team of IMF offices, is framed for attempting to steal & sell a CIA "NOC" list to an arms dealer named "Max". A NOC listing occurs as listings of each IMF professional, their codelist & their really names.

1 plot device concerns the train going through the Channel Tunnel between England and France. At one point a whirlybird enters the burrow within pursuit of the train.

Filming locations include: Prague and London.

Cast and characters
Tom Cruise — Ethan Hunt Jon Voight — Jim Phelps Ving Rhames — Luther Stickell Jean Reno — Franz Krieger Emmanuelle Béart — Claire Phelps Henry Czerny — Eugene Kittridge Vanessa Redgrave — Max

Crew
Directed by: Brian De Palma Written by: David Koepp, Steven Zaillian Produced by: Paul Hitchcock , Tom Cruise Composed by: Danny Elfman

Box Office

Budget - $80,000,000 Marketing prices - N/A Opening Weekend Gross (House servant) - $45,436,830 Total Household Grosses - $180,981,886 Total Overseas Grosses - $275,512,947 Total Worldwide Grosses - $456,494,833

Reaction

A film was a third greatest around pack professional gross for the season. Despite a big revenues, a film was criticised for existence unfaithful to the original television series Mission: Impossible by focusing extra on the star (& too producer) Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt like than accenting teamwork. At the equivalent period a film mass produced a central character of the television series, Jim Phelps, a traitor in the CIA. the script was as well criticized for existence as well complicated, a twist on the common complaints that summertime blockbusters come too uncultivated & elementary. A performing was deem flat in virtually all of the actors, due to the fact for existence Tom Cruise's debut when filmmaker. To the film's credit even so, it was esteem much extra faithful than its sequel Mission: Impossible II.

Trivia
The motion-picture show conspicuously features 230 MB magneto-optical discs, curiously named floppy disk, possibly the product placement. The heist scene seems to become the information to each Topkapi and 2001: A Space Odyssey movies. Peter Graves, who played Jim Phelps in a original series, declined to reprise his role in the moving picture when learning his character was to die at the film's guide.