Saw this in theaters for the 25th anniversary a few weeks ago (my first post vax outing! woo!), and even though I've seen it a million times and own the entire series on Blu Ray... man this movie holds up and I was so happy to see it in the theater. The tension/pacing/sound choices, etc... brilliant. The CIA wire sequence works every. time. My personal favorite MI is Ghost Protocol, but the first one is a classic.
Elfman's score is stereo perfection, listening to it in your headphones with some instruments going right to left and left to right just put a smile on your face. And the hand/sweat thing... the very next scene of Ethan shows that he's already a few inches up, and he looks surprised he's up already.
I’ll never forget seeing this movie in theaters as a kid with my elderly aunt. She fell asleep in the first scene, then woke up in the third act. I’ve never seen someone so terribly confused. It melted her brain, but when I asked her what she thought of it, she just smiled and said “it was a little too predictable.”
I rewatched this last night on preparation. It really holds up. Emilio getting impaled on top of the elevator has haunted the back of my mind since 1996.
@@jbard9892 I hadn't seen it in 1996. I was 12 and he was still Gordon Bombay to me. Also, it could have been anyone, it was the event that disturbed me more that the person to whom it happened.
Dan, I really appreciated the high effort you put into these videos from the clips to the time stamps and all of the editing in between it’s all great! I also prefer this approach where it’s primarily you expanding on the film without any support in interviews or collaborations. The collabs are always done well but they’re not my cup of tea. Keep it up!!
Just so you know Dan, I don’t remember the exact years but in the 90s when smoking was banned on flights it originally only applied on domestic flights in the continental US. For a good while after that you could still smoke on overseas flights. So if he was flying to Europe then Jim Phelps very well could have been ok smoking on an airplane in 1996.
I never even thought about the hand catching the water drop. I think they could have made it 'realistic' but the close up action shot is definitely the right way to do it
Good review ! You forgot to mention how brilliant Elfman's music is (replacing Silverstri's). You may also mention as well the cheated flashback of Hunt's memory on Kreiger's knife, De Palma uses the same shot seen before but with a longer take to show that Hunt noticed the kind of his knife.
Dan, this “segment” is just pure gold. You’re really onto something here. Please just keep churning these out. Great content - thanks for your research and hard work ;)
I've honestly been so disappointed in the M:I film franchise. The idea that was originally presented was that every movie would be a different style/genre. The first was a psychological thriller/whodunit, while the second turned out a more action-based movie. And then they stopped trying to change the formula and just keep making the action movies over and over again. Tom Cruise does his own stunts. That's pretty damn cool and all. But it's the same movie, over and over again.
Absolutely off topic, but the fact that you pronounced "Kyiv" correctly surprised the hell out of me! I'm so used to Americans calling it "Kiev". As a Ukrainian fan, my appreciation of you went through the roof! :)
@@Kelemchrist Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm running around the internet demanding people to pronounce Kyiv properly. But I can't lie, it does feel good to hear it in Ukrainian dialect. ("Kiev" is Russian dialect). So thanks for updating your vocabulary as well. I love seeing intercultural respect and adequate behavior in comment section on RUclips. Even in such a small form it does make a difference! :)
I didn't know Cast was on the soundtrack for this. 'Dreamer' is a belter of a tune. Truth be told the scene where Phelps explains what happened in the opening mission, but Hunt imagines his own sequence of events, really confused me. It was like being told the instructions for how to assemble a bookcase but being shown pictures of a desk.
As a train enthusiast I'm still mad at the fact that there was no catenary over the high speed rail line. Might have messed up the Helicopter scene though. Also the channel tunnnel is actually three separate tunnels. Two rail tunnels, one for each direction, and one service tunnel in between. So the scene with the oncoming train would not happen in reality. I'm lots of fun at parties btw.
I wanna say that arguably, the portrayal of technology in this film does not detract from the overall film because technology in all the subsequent films of the franchise and a lot of other media have technology that is completely unbelievable in other ways.
I was born in July of 96, I didn’t watch this movie till I was 5 in 2001. My parents still own there original VHS. I don’t know why they didn’t buy the other on dvd or bluer ray lol. I been watching this series in theaters since the 4th film.
This had a great IMF director, his voice was fantastic. Underrated entry in the series. But IMO - Mission Impossible 2 is by far the best in the series.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic because that movie is generally disliked but I love it. It's very different from the others but it's a lot of fun and the score by Hans Zimmer is fantastic.
@@lubtp7133 no sarcasm, i love MI2 - best plot (not the usual spy list, vague end of the world garbage) , best cheesy villain, best female lead, best music, best action
@@nofxdude89 no sarcasm, i love MI2 - best plot (not the usual spy list, vague end of the world garbage) , best cheesy villain, best female lead, best music, best action
I watched this and the second as well as the third last month and I thought it was pretty good. Story wise I would say it was about as good as Mission impossible 4 one of my favorite movies in the franchise. If I had to rank these movies it be: 1. Mission impossible and Mission impossible 4 2. Mission impossible 3 3. Rogue Nation 4. Mission impossible 2 and Fallout The reason 2 and fallout are at 4 is because while those movies have some great moments from the action to the locations, they miss a few things that made the film that came before them good. As for the reason I put 3 over rogue nation is mainly because of Philip Seymour Hoffman who they should've gave more to do in that movie.
As a youngster, seeing Emmanuelle Beart in Manon des Sources made quite an impression... She's a respected actress in France, so may not have set her sights on a big Hollywood career anyway.
Believe it or not I hated this film and its ending for a very long time... until Mission: Impossible 2 came out! As someone that grew up watching the original Mission: Impossible including the revival that reused old scripts because of the writers strike in the late 80s, I inadvertently became a huge fan of the franchise and the character of Jim Phelps. I was pleasantly surprised and saddened that Phelps would be a character in the Cruise film as a way of passing the torch, which I was so down for! Reminded me of the M:I sister franchise Star Trek and the way Star Trek Generations has Kirk do the same with Picard!... UNTIL that villain reveal happened and I was beside myself as a nerdy 15 year old dork! To put it in context for those that aren't OG M:I fans Jim Phelps betraying the IMF forces after 25 + years of being the franchises hero was like watching James Kirk fake his death in Star Trek The Motion Picture only to show up at the end as the villain hatching a stupid plan with sexified V'Ger! At the time no one else in my life understood why that was a big deal for me, but all that was forgiven once I saw Mission Impossible 2!! I suddenly was able to appreciate this films interesting stylistic flourishes and attempts to add a layer of DePalma's signature sophisticated sleaze! Plus the soundtrack and score were and still are among my all time favorites!
The only thing that bothered me in this movie is that it made Jim Phelps, the hero of the original Mission: Impossible series, to be the villain. Aside from that, awesome movie.
I wish I saw the rest of the movies. I must track them all down from rental or TV broadcasts. I'm told the whole series is really good. I lost interest because of what they did with the character Jim Phelps. It just felt so wrong. I now tend to think it's not the same Jim since the character is played by John Voight. Yet I still haven't given the movies a chance. I must do it.
OH MY GOD YES!!! I was the same way! I saw this in theaters as a huge old school M:I fan and couldn't believe they turned him into such a piece of crap!? I've since gotten over it but at the time it really bothered me! lol
the second one is disliked by many (it's a very John Woo movie), but from three on the movies have become more and more respected and are considered some of the best action movies of the last decade. Each movie has its great moments and spectacular action pieces where Tom Cruise does not hold back from doing insane stuff! I can really recommend them as standalone pieces distinct from the original tv series ;)
I disagree a bit with M:I being the outlier of the series. It is a bit different (but I think that's more to do with the De Palma dutch angle tendency), but is closer in tone to the rest than M:I II was, which is the real crazy brother of the franchise.
im so bummed they never brought kittredge back. Czerny is such a great antagonist to cruise. They should have brought him back instead of making up baldwins new character.
M:I3 is the best of the films. The stakes for Hunt are at their most personal, it has Cruise's best acting performance (in an M:I movie), and the best villain.
"It is different from any mission impossible movie" so is every other movie in the franchise. that's what you get when you have 5 different directors across 6 movies lmao
Not really. The last 3 are far more similar to each other than the original is to any of them. It has its own unique style thanks to Brian De Palma. Also from 3 onwards the films have the same sense of humour which wasn't in the first two.
I love highlighting movies of all kinds, but the reality is that when I do those movies - nobody watches. I’d love to do a Jacques Tati movie or Shattered Glass, but right now, I have partners and sponsors to whom I’m obligated to help the show grow as much as possible. That may change in the future but that’s just the reality right now
Emmanuelle Beard had not much to do with such a poor written character... she is a fantastic actress and they could have given her more screen time to balance the movie, but again this franchise, while good, only serves Cruise.
Saw this in theaters for the 25th anniversary a few weeks ago (my first post vax outing! woo!), and even though I've seen it a million times and own the entire series on Blu Ray... man this movie holds up and I was so happy to see it in the theater. The tension/pacing/sound choices, etc... brilliant. The CIA wire sequence works every. time. My personal favorite MI is Ghost Protocol, but the first one is a classic.
I did too!!
Elfman's score is stereo perfection, listening to it in your headphones with some instruments going right to left and left to right just put a smile on your face.
And the hand/sweat thing... the very next scene of Ethan shows that he's already a few inches up, and he looks surprised he's up already.
Morse code theme blew my mind too, Dan, thank you!
I’ll never forget seeing this movie in theaters as a kid with my elderly aunt. She fell asleep in the first scene, then woke up in the third act. I’ve never seen someone so terribly confused. It melted her brain, but when I asked her what she thought of it, she just smiled and said “it was a little too predictable.”
I rewatched this last night on preparation. It really holds up. Emilio getting impaled on top of the elevator has haunted the back of my mind since 1996.
Wow! I had a very different reaction to that. Have you seen Men at Work? He really deserved it.
@@jbard9892 I hadn't seen it in 1996. I was 12 and he was still Gordon Bombay to me. Also, it could have been anyone, it was the event that disturbed me more that the person to whom it happened.
@@mchapmond I understand, I was just making a joke.
@@jbard9892 Gotcha. I thought you might be but you never really know in a comment section.
I don't know why, but the deadpan delivery of "I was an idiot" had me rolling.
When I was younger, Radio Disney would play the Mission Impossible theme song. Super iconic glad you mentioned the theme.
I'm going to blow someone's mind with the Morse code fact - thank you Dan. As always, great video!!
I did not know the Morse code fact and I'm just as impressed as you are.
Also, young Dan thinking the cast was singing the song is adorable!
The outdated technology is the most hilarious part of this movie. The part on the train with the laptop and external floppy drive had me rolling.
Dan, I really appreciated the high effort you put into these videos from the clips to the time stamps and all of the editing in between it’s all great! I also prefer this approach where it’s primarily you expanding on the film without any support in interviews or collaborations. The collabs are always done well but they’re not my cup of tea. Keep it up!!
Hmm, now whenever I hum the Mission: Impossible theme (which is surprisingly often) I'm gonna be saying 'dash' and 'dot' lol
Just so you know Dan, I don’t remember the exact years but in the 90s when smoking was banned on flights it originally only applied on domestic flights in the continental US. For a good while after that you could still smoke on overseas flights. So if he was flying to Europe then Jim Phelps very well could have been ok smoking on an airplane in 1996.
Yes! I flew to and from Spain in 1997 and on the way back the man next to me chain smoked for the full flight.
Summer '96 was definitely amazing from a movie perspective...I was also 17, so of course I look back on that summer fondly.
The last few movies in the franchise have been great, but this is still my favorite Mission Impossible movie to date.
You've been killing it Dan! You have more views than fandom these days!
I never even thought about the hand catching the water drop. I think they could have made it 'realistic' but the close up action shot is definitely the right way to do it
Good review !
You forgot to mention how brilliant Elfman's music is (replacing Silverstri's).
You may also mention as well the cheated flashback of Hunt's memory on Kreiger's knife, De Palma uses the same shot seen before but with a longer take to show that Hunt noticed the kind of his knife.
That Morse code nugget is brilliant and surprising. Love your breakdowns.
Love All My Movies! I listen to these instead of podcast while I’m working
Morse code thing blew my mind.
Daaaaan you just blew my mind too. Damn Dash dash dot dot dash dash dot dot 😍
I love these videos. Dan, please continue making these. The morse code thing was amazing 😀😀
Mad you didn't shout out the best line in the movie, "Hasta lasagna, don't get any on ya"
13:08 I still remember watching this scene in the theater. The slight echo of Ethan in the phone booth was chilling and realistic.
Dan, this “segment” is just pure gold. You’re really onto something here. Please just keep churning these out. Great content - thanks for your research and hard work ;)
Just finished watching this movie. Crazy
I’m loving these videos and now one of my favourite films! Keep up the awesome videos!
I remember being somewhat shocked after the TV show, to learn who the villain was in this.
Probably A Quiet Place has some of the few quiet/tense moments in recent thrillers.
This is like the first The Fast and the Furious grounded story compared to the sequels lol 😆
Commented too soon! I had this conversation about a month ago! 1996 was the pinnacle of movies (at least for my generation)
Excellent, Tom the cruise
Ha. I love this guy.
Appreciate the shout-out to Ready or Not
I've honestly been so disappointed in the M:I film franchise. The idea that was originally presented was that every movie would be a different style/genre. The first was a psychological thriller/whodunit, while the second turned out a more action-based movie. And then they stopped trying to change the formula and just keep making the action movies over and over again.
Tom Cruise does his own stunts. That's pretty damn cool and all. But it's the same movie, over and over again.
Absolutely off topic, but the fact that you pronounced "Kyiv" correctly surprised the hell out of me! I'm so used to Americans calling it "Kiev". As a Ukrainian fan, my appreciation of you went through the roof! :)
And now this American knows how to pronounce it too, thanks Dan and Kulyk
@@Kelemchrist Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm running around the internet demanding people to pronounce Kyiv properly. But I can't lie, it does feel good to hear it in Ukrainian dialect. ("Kiev" is Russian dialect). So thanks for updating your vocabulary as well. I love seeing intercultural respect and adequate behavior in comment section on RUclips. Even in such a small form it does make a difference! :)
I didn't know Cast was on the soundtrack for this. 'Dreamer' is a belter of a tune.
Truth be told the scene where Phelps explains what happened in the opening mission, but Hunt imagines his own sequence of events, really confused me. It was like being told the instructions for how to assemble a bookcase but being shown pictures of a desk.
As a train enthusiast I'm still mad at the fact that there was no catenary over the high speed rail line.
Might have messed up the Helicopter scene though.
Also the channel tunnnel is actually three separate tunnels.
Two rail tunnels, one for each direction, and one service tunnel in between.
So the scene with the oncoming train would not happen in reality.
I'm lots of fun at parties btw.
Dan, love the videos! But is your audio version anywhere else other than apple podcasts?
Spotify and Stitcher for sure!
I wanna say that arguably, the portrayal of technology in this film does not detract from the overall film because technology in all the subsequent films of the franchise and a lot of other media have technology that is completely unbelievable in other ways.
Can you do a video on Dragonheart which also just celebrated its 25th Anniversary? BTW, love this retrospective series! 👏👍
No mention of the Danny Elfman score? Still probably my favorite score from the franchise.
i spotted the hidden Alan! in this episode, actually i spotted about a hundred of them.
Where
Can you do a review of The Fugitive please?
Me: "1996? That was 15 years ago!"
Dan: "...just turned 25 years old..."
Me: "...I'm so old."
I was born in July of 96, I didn’t watch this movie till I was 5 in 2001. My parents still own there original VHS. I don’t know why they didn’t buy the other on dvd or bluer ray lol. I been watching this series in theaters since the 4th film.
Mission Impossible franchise has definitely been one of the best franchises that is better as each film is made!
I think it’s more like: Gilligan kills everyone on the island, trying to escape with buried treasure. Some rando stops him and becomes the Gilligan.
Never seen it and now I never have to either!
Morse code music? Genius.
Great as always! More cats please 🐈⬛
1996 good times at the movies!
This had a great IMF director, his voice was fantastic. Underrated entry in the series. But IMO - Mission Impossible 2 is by far the best in the series.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic because that movie is generally disliked but I love it. It's very different from the others but it's a lot of fun and the score by Hans Zimmer is fantastic.
@@lubtp7133 no sarcasm, i love MI2 - best plot (not the usual spy list, vague end of the world garbage) , best cheesy villain, best female lead, best music, best action
Yeah. Can’t tell if this is trolling or not haha
@@nofxdude89 no sarcasm, i love MI2 - best plot (not the usual spy list, vague end of the world garbage) , best cheesy villain, best female lead, best music, best action
The wire hanging scene, and the train/helicopter sequence are still great
Hello trailer shot!!
I watched this and the second as well as the third last month and I thought it was pretty good. Story wise I would say it was about as good as Mission impossible 4 one of my favorite movies in the franchise. If I had to rank these movies it be:
1. Mission impossible and Mission impossible 4
2. Mission impossible 3
3. Rogue Nation
4. Mission impossible 2 and Fallout
The reason 2 and fallout are at 4 is because while those movies have some great moments from the action to the locations, they miss a few things that made the film that came before them good. As for the reason I put 3 over rogue nation is mainly because of Philip Seymour Hoffman who they should've gave more to do in that movie.
Until Fall Out this was always my favourite MI.
As a youngster, seeing Emmanuelle Beart in Manon des Sources made quite an impression... She's a respected actress in France, so may not have set her sights on a big Hollywood career anyway.
Tom Cruise had more sexual chemistry with Vanessa Redgrave in this movie than any romantic partner he has had in any film.
The train scene has not been topped in awesomeness yet… The new movies are good and all, but they can’t touch that explosion jump 🤓
Had no idea it was a tv series first lol
The summer of '96 was also a huge life-changing moment for me: I went from not existing to being alive :P
Well, of course next week is Independence Day episode. Dan couldn't help himself
Imagine adaptation coming today, where OG cast is killed or turned evil... And all of that OG cast in anger....MI is released today, would be DOA
Believe it or not I hated this film and its ending for a very long time... until Mission: Impossible 2 came out! As someone that grew up watching the original Mission: Impossible including the revival that reused old scripts because of the writers strike in the late 80s, I inadvertently became a huge fan of the franchise and the character of Jim Phelps. I was pleasantly surprised and saddened that Phelps would be a character in the Cruise film as a way of passing the torch, which I was so down for! Reminded me of the M:I sister franchise Star Trek and the way Star Trek Generations has Kirk do the same with Picard!... UNTIL that villain reveal happened and I was beside myself as a nerdy 15 year old dork! To put it in context for those that aren't OG M:I fans Jim Phelps betraying the IMF forces after 25 + years of being the franchises hero was like watching James Kirk fake his death in Star Trek The Motion Picture only to show up at the end as the villain hatching a stupid plan with sexified V'Ger! At the time no one else in my life understood why that was a big deal for me, but all that was forgiven once I saw Mission Impossible 2!! I suddenly was able to appreciate this films interesting stylistic flourishes and attempts to add a layer of DePalma's signature sophisticated sleaze! Plus the soundtrack and score were and still are among my all time favorites!
38:53 spies WHAT
The only thing that bothered me in this movie is that it made Jim Phelps, the hero of the original Mission: Impossible series, to be the villain. Aside from that, awesome movie.
35:13 🤣🤣🤣
I wish I saw the rest of the movies. I must track them all down from rental or TV broadcasts. I'm told the whole series is really good. I lost interest because of what they did with the character Jim Phelps. It just felt so wrong. I now tend to think it's not the same Jim since the character is played by John Voight. Yet I still haven't given the movies a chance. I must do it.
OH MY GOD YES!!! I was the same way! I saw this in theaters as a huge old school M:I fan and couldn't believe they turned him into such a piece of crap!? I've since gotten over it but at the time it really bothered me! lol
the second one is disliked by many (it's a very John Woo movie), but from three on the movies have become more and more respected and are considered some of the best action movies of the last decade. Each movie has its great moments and spectacular action pieces where Tom Cruise does not hold back from doing insane stuff! I can really recommend them as standalone pieces distinct from the original tv series ;)
The Rock should be the next one. Hope to see Face/Off here down the line.
for sure!
I disagree a bit with M:I being the outlier of the series. It is a bit different (but I think that's more to do with the De Palma dutch angle tendency), but is closer in tone to the rest than M:I II was, which is the real crazy brother of the franchise.
im so bummed they never brought kittredge back. Czerny is such a great antagonist to cruise. They should have brought him back instead of making up baldwins new character.
My MI Take: The M:I franchise is WAY better than the FF & M:I3 is supremely underrated.
M:I3 is the best of the films. The stakes for Hunt are at their most personal, it has Cruise's best acting performance (in an M:I movie), and the best villain.
"It is different from any mission impossible movie"
so is every other movie in the franchise. that's what you get when you have 5 different directors across 6 movies lmao
Not really. The last 3 are far more similar to each other than the original is to any of them. It has its own unique style thanks to Brian De Palma. Also from 3 onwards the films have the same sense of humour which wasn't in the first two.
Damn I miss Brian DePalma films.
Who decided to turn Channel Tunnel into a portmanteau?
Personally, back then, when I saw Jean Reno in this movie, I was disappointed that he wasn't Italian, and he wasn't a hitman 🤷🏾♂️
Do you mean Leon? Amazing assassin in that but surely he was French in that not Italian?? 🙃
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In the words of Roger Ebert, I hated, hated, hated these movies.
I liked the movie, but as a huge fan of the original tv show I was very upset that they make Mr. Phelps the bad guy.
Self destruct in five minutes? 😂
"science fiction"...LOL
Dan nobody here calls the Channel Tunnel, 'The Chunnel' that sounds like some just threw up!
That’s what they call it in the movie though!
I kind of like Dan, but man, couldn't there be a spotlight on films that haven't been discussed to death by others? It's like he's aiming for generic.
I love highlighting movies of all kinds, but the reality is that when I do those movies - nobody watches. I’d love to do a Jacques Tati movie or Shattered Glass, but right now, I have partners and sponsors to whom I’m obligated to help the show grow as much as possible. That may change in the future but that’s just the reality right now
Emmanuelle Beard had not much to do with such a poor written character... she is a fantastic actress and they could have given her more screen time to balance the movie, but again this franchise, while good, only serves Cruise.
bri'ish people call it the 'chunnel' because they cant pronounce the letter T.
British people don't call it the Chunnel full-stop. No idea where the filmmakers got that gross portmanteau from 😂