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. 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. It also stars Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jean Reno. It was followed by Mission: Impossible 2 in 2000.
When U.S. government operative Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his mentor, Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), go on a covert assignment that takes a disastrous turn, Jim is killed, and Ethan becomes the prime murder suspect. Now a fugitive, Hunt recruits brilliant hacker Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and maverick pilot Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) to help him sneak into a heavily guarded CIA building to retrieve a confidential computer file that will prove his innocence.
Victims[]
- Jack Harmon - Face caved in after being impaled in the mouth by an elevator spike, caused by Jim Phelps.
- Hannah Joan Williams - Killed in an explosion caused by Jim Phelps.
- Alexander Golitsyn - Stabbed by Franz Krieger with a knife off-screen, body shown.
- Sarah Davies - Stabbed by Franz Krieger with a knife off-screen, body shown.
- At Least 12 Fish - Suffocated after Ethan Hunt blew up their tank with a gum bomb.
- Rat - Killed by Franz Krieger off-screen, body shown.
- Claire Phelps - Bled out after being shot in the chest by Jim Phelps.
- Franz Krieger - Blown up by Ethan Hunt after he put a gum bomb on his helicopter.
- James "Jim" Phelps - Dragged along a subway rail and burned by a helicopter, caused by Ethan Hunt.
Deaths[]
- Total - 20
- 13 Animals
- 12 Fish
- 1 Rat
- 7 Humans
- 4 Men
- 3 Women
- 13 Animals
Kill Counts[]
- Ethan Matthew Hunt - 14 (Alive)
- Franz Krieger - 3 (Deceased)
- James "Jim" Phelps - 3 (Deceased)