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Mission Impossible: Ultimate Missions Collection (Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible 2 / Mission: Impossible 3) [HD DVD]
 
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Mission Impossible: Ultimate Missions Collection (Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible 2 / Mission: Impossible 3) [HD DVD]

Tom Cruise (Actor), Michelle Monaghan (Actor), Brian De Palma (Director), J.J. Abrams (Director) | Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: HD DVD

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• IMPORTANT NOTICE: This high-definition disc will only play in an HD DVD player. It will not play in a Blu-ray player or a PS3.

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Mission: Impossible was one of the best action blockbusters of the 1990s, deriving a quality unique amongst its peers from the tension between Brian De Palma's directorial stylisation and the overriding presence of its star and producer, Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Special Forces agent Ethan Hunt, disavowed as a traitor by his own superiors and forced to uncover the true mole to prove his innocence. The original 1960s television series provides not only the wonderful musical motif, but also the layered complexity of false realities and masked identities, which are revealed with the playful conjuring of a Russian doll.

This was Cruise's last movie as an angst-ridden youth (next stop was Jerry Maguire and the trials of family life) and he presents Ethan Hunt as caught between his heroic physical prowess and a trusting emotional na¨vety that is painfully punctured by the treachery of those around him. Hollywood heavyweights Jon Voight (Heat) and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) are both excellent in support, while the remaining cast reads like an identikit of European cinema, including Emanuelle Beart, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jean Reno (Leon).

De Palma's trademark set-pieces include a giant exploding fishtank in Prague, a helicopter chase through the Channel Tunnel, and, most notably, a break-in to steal a vital disc from CIA headquarters in Langley. The moment in the latter when, in almost complete silence, Cruise dangles precariously from a cable and just catches a bead of sweat before it triggers the floor alarm is as sublimely exhilarating as any in American movies of the last 10 years. --Steve Napleton

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A flashy, splashy summer-movie blockbuster that's fun and exciting without being mindless? That's the impossible mission accomplished by director Brian De Palma, star-coproducer Tom Cruise, and the crack team of Mission: Impossible. Based on the '60s TV show and an almost impenetrably complex (but nonetheless thrilling) original story by David Koepp (Jurassic Park) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), with a screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo), Mission: Impossible begins with veteran agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his expert crew embarking on a mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But nothing is what it seems. The nail-biting set piece--always a signature of director De Palma (Carrie, The Untouchables)--in which Cruise is lowered from the ceiling to retrieve information from a computer in a high-security vault--is an instant classic. But perhaps even more impressive, at least in retrospect, is a flashback sequence in which two characters attempt to reconstruct a series of events from multiple points of view. It's pretty daring and sophisticated stuff for a big-budget spy movie, but brains were always what put the Mission: Impossible team ahead of the competition, anyway, no? --Jim Emerson
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Amazon.com: 4.4 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars 2 out Of 3 Aint Bad, Nov 18 2006
By P. Svensen "I used to be indecisive but now I... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mission Impossible: Ultimate Missions Collection (Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible 2 / Mission: Impossible 3) [HD DVD] (HD DVD)
I am not going to bore people with what the plots on these 3 movies are about as I think we all have a reasonable grasp of them. What I will say about the HD-DVD boxset is that MI2 and MI3 are both spectacular examples of this high definition format. They excel in both the video and audio transfers, I think they would have been par excellence if they had of included a TrueHD audio track.

The one down point to this set is the original MI HD-DVD, the ball was dropped on this one with a sub par video transfer which at times was so out of focus that it was not funny. The audio, while not jaw dropping, was acceptable.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Set if you like the moives, Jan 9 2007
By A. Spohn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mission Impossible: Ultimate Missions Collection (Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible 2 / Mission: Impossible 3) [HD DVD] (HD DVD)
All 3 movies were restored with great care in this set. MI2 looks incredible considering when it was filmed. MI 1 looks good. Its not "HD" looking but its clearer than the dvd orig and the blacks are very good. MI3 looks true HD. Probably one of the highest resolution movies Ive seen on HD so far.

Extras are pretty lame on the first movie and not too much there on the second either. The thrid movies has quite a bit.

Overall this is a great set if you are a fan of the series. It was rated to look slightly better on HD DVD than blu ray but I havent verified this myself.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars MI:III the true HD, Jan 9 2007
By J. Mains "spidermains" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mission Impossible: Ultimate Missions Collection (Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible 2 / Mission: Impossible 3) [HD DVD] (HD DVD)
I waited for all 3 of these movies to come out in HD before purchase, which although they all look good, by far, MI:III turned out the best. I think with the modern film and cameras, and with this being the new standard of image, III looks the best, highest definition possible. I just wasn't impressed with I and II on the HD-DVD format. I don't know if they didn't clean up the older films or if the techniques used in fimling were lower, but in my opinion they didn't look much better (if at all) than standard DVD.

Summary: If you don't own any of them on DVD get it. If you own the first 2 on DVD but not the third, but MI:III in HD-DVD and leave the rest alone.
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