MOVIE COMPANY: Paramount Pictures
CAST: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vanessa Redgrave
DIRECTED BY:Â Bria De Palma
PRODUCED BY:Â Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117060
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, adventure and thriller.
Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit that “holds you on the edge of your seat before blasting you out of it” (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times). Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent trained for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA’s most impenetrable vault, clinging into the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of pursuers…and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.
Your mission should you decide to accept it: hang on for the “wildest ride of the year!” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times).
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Theatrical trailer
• Full-screen and widescreen letterbox formats
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None at this time
DVD REVIEW:
It has been four years later since the first movie with the second movie now out in theaters. The first movie is available via DVD through Paramount and it is still overpriced compared to other DVD’s.
I must admit that DVD buyers will spend a lot of money but this is one time where I just didn’t buy it immediately because I’m hooked on a DVD being a full package. This DVD is not. No extras at all. In fact, I should give this DVD an F for extra’s but it did have the trailer and although I usually don’t count trailers as extra’s, in this case I did because without it, it would be bare bones for a DVD.
If you watched the movie, you either liked the old series or you liked the new movie with Tom Cruise. Personally, I don’t mind both and I enjoyed the movie, maybe not tremendously but I’m still disappointed this DVD is lacking. I’m sure that Paramount could of released an awesome DVD but they didn’t. No deleted scenes…nothing.
This DVD was also not 16:9 enhanced but the video colors were very good. The thing is, I have to be truthful about this, I didn’t hear so much from my 5.1 system in terms of great, outstanding sound.  The sound is good but nothing in terms of hearing great sound ala “The Fifth Element” or “Godzilla”. In fact, the final scene, I was hoping to feel that blast all around me and I didn’t. I don’t know, perhaps someone else may have experienced something different. The reviews I read talked about great sound, obviously I’m missing it.
The movie is good and yes, it’s on DVD, so of course, I’m going to say get the DVD instead of the video but the thing is, it’s overpriced right now at ($24.99-$29.99) and it doesn’t have much on it. Perhaps when the second movie is released on DVD, they will re-release this as a special edition and DVD fans will get what they want. Again, I’m not dissing on the movie. The movie is very interesting and keeps you thinking and that action does keep you glued to the set. But to score the DVD as a whole, I’m not dissing on the movie, I’m dissing the DVD in general.
Paramount, this movie deserves a re-release, special or collector’s edition. In the previews you show scenes that I didn’t see in the movie. Where are the cut scenes and where is the featurette and more. A trailer and subtitles don’t count as extra’s anymore.
Last, as mentioned previously, this DVD is still being sold at an expensive cost. My advice, go to Wal-Mart or Target and buy the Tom Cruise Collector’s Box Set which comes with “Top Gun”, “Days of Thunder” and “Mission: Impossible” for $65. If you just want M:I on DVD, I hope they re-release it.
THE MOVIE:Â B+
THE DVD EXTRAS:Â D-
THE DVD OVERALL:Â C