


and Adam Clayton became a top-ten hit internationally and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The film grossed $457.7 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 1996, while the dance rendition of the original theme song by Larry Mullen Jr.
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The film received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, with praise for the action sequences, De Palma's direction and Cruise's performance but criticism for the convoluted plot cast members of the original television series negatively received the film. Mission: Impossible was theatrically released in the United States by Paramount on May 22, 1996. Principal photography began in March 1995 and lasted until that August, with filming locations including London, Pinewood Studios in England, and Prague (a rarity in Hollywood at the time). Development initially began with filmmaker Sydney Pollack but most of the final screenplay was complete after De Palma, Steven Zaillian, David Koepp and Robert Towne were hired De Palma also designed most of the action sequences, while Cruise did most of his own stunts.

Numerous efforts by Paramount Pictures to create a film adaptation of the television series stalled until Cruise founded Cruise/Wagner Productions and decided on Mission: Impossible as its inaugural project. In the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) seeks to uncover who framed him for the murders of most of his Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team. It also stars Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave and Jean Reno. A continuation of the 1966 television series of the same name and its 1988 sequel series ( canonically set six years after the latter), it is the first installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy film directed by Brian De Palma and produced by and starring Tom Cruise from a screenplay by David Koepp and Robert Towne and story by Koepp and Steven Zaillian.
