The Best of Mission: Impossible
8 films, 4 billion dollars at the box office, mythical waterfalls and Tom Cruise on all fronts: the spy saga bows with The Final Reckoning. And at the time of the balance sheet, we remember what mission: impossible has done better.
There is no perfect movie in the saga Mission: Impossible. But each of the 8 opuses includes great successes, even moments entered in the annals of cinema. We have selected the best songs, which, put end to end, would possibly form the biggest spy film of all time!
The best opening
kyiv’s masquerade
Brian de Palma Starts very hard: from the first scene of the first film, the game of masks is launched. In kyiv, Claire (Emmanuelle Béart) simulates his death so that Ethan, disguised as Russian, makes a man speak before resuscitating her. “We had it?” And Bam, the wick is light, the credits explodes. Whey.
The best variation in the theme
“Take A Look Around” by Limp Bizkit
Iconic notes of Lalo Schifrin are inseparable from the MFI. At the turn of the 2000s, Limp Bizkit offers a furious version: “Take a look around”, Nu Metal Nervex and armored energy hymn. Probably the best thing to remember from the very unequal Mission: Impossible 2.
The best member of the team
Luther stickell played by twenty rhames
Many of them have accompanied Ethan Hunt on a mission. Of course, there is the troublemaker Benji (Simon Pegg) which brings its touch of madness from the 3rd part. There is also the very classy William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) or the very sexy Jane Carter (Paula Patton). But none can match the faithful Luther Stickell, a disowned computer genius that Hunt recruited from the first opus. He will never let go and will always be there without blinking, in each of his missions.
The best “m: i girl”
Rebecca Ferguson alias Ilsa Faust
As there are James Bond Girls In 007 films, there are M: I Girls To support Ethan Hunt in his missions. With the difference that they are not only there for stories of love or sex … and the most badass of all, it is undoubtedly Rebecca Ferguson. If Emmanuelle Béart Or Michelle Monhagan were able to make the agent’s little heart crack, the elusive Ilsa Faust is the one who succeeds both breathless (in Ghost Protocol) and to make us cry (in Dead Reckoning).
The best scenario
The union in Rogue Nation
We sometimes had trouble getting the ins and outs of Ethan’s missions. But that of Rogue Nation is particularly exciting, because it is carefully tied. Against a background of confrontation between MFI and CIA, the British Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) Direct the union in the shadows, an organization of killers made up of former spies around the world, disowned by their country. Originally, it was an underground experiment in the English Mi6 – funded by £ 2.4 billion in a black box – which went wrong. Unlike the MFI, which defends global balance, the union wants to create a new world order through chaos. For them, the destruction of corrupt governments is a way to revive a more “fair” world … But for that, billions of collateral victims are needed. A real army of killers, with an ideology pegged to the body.
The best dramatic sequence
The Prague massacre
The first opus of Mission: Impossible is marked in the red iron by this mission which turns in a bloodbath. Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his team must prevent a flip -flop containing the secret list of infiltrated agents in Central Europe. They therefore go to Prague to trap Alexander Golytsin and his contact during a reception at the American Embassy. But the operation turns to disaster: one by one, the team members are eliminated badly: impaled in an elevator, shot on the Charles deck, sprayed in the explosion of a car or stabbed in the cold night … Ethan attends this hecatombe, helpless.
The best naughty
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Owen Davian
But what is the “rabbit paw”? If Mission: Impossible 3 is not the most successful in the whole saga, JJ Abrams had the good idea to draw a Macguffin enigmatic and invisible. A mysterious biological object that we guess to be a deadly weapon and that all the characters in the film absolutely want. In particular the arms dealer Owen Davian, who has fun putting micro-bombes in the brain of people. With a terrifying coldness and a presence never equaled in the saga, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (died 10 years later, at only 46 years old) justifies his Oscar for best actor received a few months ago (for Hood).
The best decor
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates
The least we can say is that Ethan saw the country. Infiltrating the Vatican in Rome, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Kremlin in Moscow, the Tate Modern in London, the Palais des Doges in Venice, the Charles bridge in Prague or the Mountains of Kashmir, it went around the globe. But the best used decor in the saga is certainly the city of Dubai and its Burj Khalifa, the highest human structure ever built, from the top of its 828 meters. Tom Cruise climbed over bare hands before playing hide and seek between suites with Léa Seydoux. Beyond the particularly well staged skyscraper, Brad Bird also knew how to use the surrounding desert and add a huge sandstorm that gives the whole sequence a (even more) biblical dimension.
The best blow of the latex mask
Alec Baldwin in Rogue Nation
It is a great classic of the saga. MFI members often play with false identities and pretenses to better deceive their enemies … and the public. From the very first scene of the first film, Ethan hides under a mask (see above). But the one that no one could see coming is when Alan Hunley, defense secretary (played by Alec Baldwin), trap the CIA Walker agent (played by Henry Cavill), forcing him to reveal himself as John Lark, an elusive notorious terrorist. A nice blow perfectly staged.
Tom Cruise’s best cascade
The parachute motorcycle jump from a cliff
There is the halo parachute jump from a C-17 plane, more than 7,000 meters high (In Fallout). There is this climbing on the highest skyscraper in the world (In Ghost Protocol). There is this madness at the rear of an Airbus A400m in full takeoff at a speed of more than 240 km/h or this unconscious plunged into a freedback of 6 minutes (In Rogue Nation). But the madness of Tom Cruise Certainly culminates with his leap into the void on a motorcycle (In Dead Reckoning). In the film, he must land on the Orient-Express, going through the Austrian Alps. In reality, the actor (58 years old at the time) really jumped from a motorcycle cliff, parachute on his back. It happened in Norway, in Hellesylt. A jump that Tom Cruise even made several times, to offer more plans to its director …
The best plan
Suspended in the CIA fort
This is undoubtedly the most iconic image of the saga Mission: Impossible. Ethan Hunt infiltrates Langley, the CIA strong chamber in the first part. The agent is suspended at the end of a cable and borders on the floor without ever touching it. Zero music, maximum voltage, an error hair and it is the alarm. Tom Cruise insisted so as not to use a lining, despite the difficulty of the exercise: it had to keep a perfect balance, suspended a few centimeters from the ground, with ultra precise movements to avoid triggering the sensors. During rehearsals, he couldn’t stay horizontal without switching forward. To correct this, he had the idea of putting coins in his shoes, to counterweight. Genius.
The best fight
Tom Cruise vs. Dougray Scott on an Australian beach
He almost lost an eye that day! To finish his film, John Woo Films a huge motorcycle chase, which ends in an epic bare hand fight on the beach between Ethan and Sean. A real hyper intense and filmed to the John Woo. A sequence without special effects where the star found herself, really, with the blade of a sharp knife just a few millimeters from her pupil.
The best chase
In the streets of Paris in Fallout
While he had Solomon Lane escape, Ethan Hunt fled into the city of Light, pursued by the French police and Ilsa Faust through the streets of Paris, from the quays of Seine, passing through the Marais to the Place Charles-de-Gaulle Rond-Point which he takes against, passing by the avenue de l’Opéra. He ends up jumping in a ventilation mouth that leads him to an underground channel. We had never seen the capital like that.
The best car
The BMW i8 of Ghost Protocol
Not a lot of choices on the brand, since BMW is a partner of the saga Mission: Impossible ! But in Ghost ProtocolEthan arrives in India at the wheel of a very exciting futuristic BMW i8. A hybrid with a 3 cylinder 1.5L block, seconded by two electric motors, capable of reaching 250 km/h and going from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.8 seconds. All this for the modest sum of 150,000 euros (excluding ecological bonus).
The best traitor
Jim Phelps played by Jon Voight
Inevitably, it’s Jim Phelps. We would have almost forgotten it after these 8 films, but at the base Mission: Impossible is a TV series from the late 1960s, created in the middle of the Cold War. At that time, the head of the team, embodied by Peter Graves (the famous pilot of Is there a pilot on the plane?) is Jim Phelps. He is the embodiment of MIDbefore Ethan Hunt. And when Brian de Palma Decides to wear the saga on the big screen, it includes Phelps (played by Jon Voight) To do it… the villain of the film! After pretending to be dead, he turns out to be in the TGV in France, grilled by Hunt. Transforming the TV hero into a movie traitor, you had to dare.
The best Ethan Hunt
Tom Cruise in Fallout
At this stage of the saga, he no longer plays Ethan Hunt: he is Ethan Hunt. Less twink, less show-off, Tom Cruise Book his most total performance in this 6th film. Physically, it is a lesson in action cinema: he himself pilots a helicopter in full chase, achieves a halo jump at 7,600 meters above sea level and ends a cascade despite a broken (truthful) ankle. But Falloutit’s not just a sporting feat. Cruise embodies an Ethan Hunt more vulnerable than ever, taken between the weight of his responsibilities and his emotional ties. He doubts, he suffers, more human, torn between his mission and those he loves (Julia, Ilsa, his teammates). A tired hero. But a hero to the end.
