Hannah gets into the car where Clair was when it suddenly blows up, killing her. Phelps's camera shows a gun shooting him and falls over the side of the bridge. Jack, who is hidden above an elevator, is killed when it mysteriously malfunctions and an emergency brake spike squashes his face in. However, the mission unexpectedly fails after the list is stolen. Jim Phelps and his latest IMF team, who had just finished another mission in Kyiv, are sent to Prague to stop rogue agent Alexander Golitsyn from stealing the CIA NOC list.

6.3 Reactions from original television series cast.

Its success spawned the Mission: Impossible film series.

Mission: Impossible was a commercial success, eventually becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1996, and garnered a mostly favorable response from critics. and Adam Clayton produced a dance rendition of the original theme music, which became a top-ten hit in the US (receiving gold record certification) and six other countries and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Mission: Impossible went into pre-production without a shooting script: De Palma devised several action sequences, but Koepp and Towne were dissatisfied with the story that led up to those events. Work on the script had begun early with filmmaker Sydney Pollack on board, before De Palma, Steven Zaillian, David Koepp, and Robert Towne were brought in.

The plot follows Ethan Hunt and his mission to uncover 'the mole' who has framed him for the murders of most of his Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team.

A continuation of both the original television series of the same name and its revived sequel series (and set six years after the events of the latter show), 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.

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