Product Details

• Actors: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno
• Directors: Brian De Palma
• Writers: Bruce Geller, David Koepp, Robert Towne, Steven Zaillian
• Producers: J.C. Calciano, Paul Hitchcock, Paula Wagner
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: November 12, 1996
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (202 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630420065X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,889 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THIS EDITION, July 9, 2006

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G.V. "Gerry" (Mexico City, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mission: Impossible (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)

I am a big fan of this movie but there's nothing special about this, so-called "Collector's Edition" which only seems to have been issued in order to have something tied up for the release of MI3.
There are a few short clips on how the incredible set pieces were made but no new interviews, deleted scenes, commentaries, etc. The featurettes included are as shallow as they can get. This is too bad given the many years we had been waiting for a special edition of this movie. Compare this to the incredible SEs Fox has been issuing of movies such as the Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Nine to Five, Planet of the Apes, etc. and it feels like somebody at Paramount ought to be fired.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, what are you talking about?, February 25, 2000

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"themandgman" (Minneapolis, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mission Impossible [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I don't quite get the bad reviews for this film. Its one of my All-Time favorites, and sure, it takes brains to follow the storyline. Yeah? So? I think that you have become to accustomed to action movies with no stories, just people getting blown up. This movie centers around Ethan Hunt (Cruise) an IMF agent sent on a mission in Keiv. The mission goes wrong and its up to Ethan to figure out what happened. He soon finds himself trying to keep a IMF NOC list from getting into the wrong hands. But whose hands are those? This movie does involve some thinking, and you may have to view it a few times to truly appreciate, but isn't that what a great movie does? You pick up new things every time you view. The movie stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Jon Voigt in a great role and other well known actors and actresses.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Impossibly dull, February 26, 2000

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Mr. S. Carlin "arca20" (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mission Impossible [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first 15 minutes of the film nod to the original series and promise a slick new version for the 90s. Then suddenly the film becomes dull, predictable and cliched, featuring all the ideas that had previously been rejected as potential storylines for an MI film - ideas suggested by people who knew little about the series but thought the title sounded catchy. When the mission goes wrong and Ethan is speaking to Phelps...its so obvious what is happening and the film vanishes under a cloud of predictability.

After the excellent first quarter hour the film plods along between its two dull stunt set-pieces. Even these are just the usualy "by-the-book" standard fare from the Hollywood production line. If you've seen one explosive/roller-coaster ride/hero triumphs over bad guy sequemce you've seem them all. When Ethan breaks into the CIA to steal the CNOC list - there's nothnig new there at all. Its a scene that has been used in other films and a great many commercials. The Channel Tunnel scene is utterly laughable - not once did it have me on the end my seat - it just had me at the end of my tether that the film deteriorated so progressively.

I have heard some people say that this is a complicated film - I can only say that its complicated if you come in durnig the end titles. This is simplistic drivel, not only easy to follow but easy to predict. If you can't see what's happening next then you are too young to be watching this film.

Overall, a lame, boring film which again demonstrates that Brian dePalma is an overrrated director. Even the one outstanding scene I remember from one of his films was ripped-off from another (Battleship Potemkin).

If you liked the TV series - AVOID the film. If you like production line films with a couple of stupid stunt scenes in them then this will suit you right down to the ground.