Mission: Impossible Blu-ray Movie 
Remastered | 25th Anniversary Edition with Collectable Car Decal / Blu-ray + Digital CopyParamount Pictures | 1996 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | May 18, 2021
Movie rating
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| 7.4 | / 10 |
Blu-ray rating
| Users |  | 0.0 |
| Reviewer |  | 4.0 |
| Overall | | 4.0 |
Overview click to collapse contents
Mission: Impossible (1996)
An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean RenoDirector: Brian De Palma
| Action | Uncertain |
| Adventure | Uncertain |
| Thriller | Uncertain |
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Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
German: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
English, English SDH, French, German, Japanese
Discs
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Packaging
Slipcover in original pressing
Playback
Region A (B, C untested)
Review click to expand contents
Rating summary
| Movie | | 4.0 |
| Video |  | 5.0 |
| Audio | | 4.0 |
| Extras |  | 3.0 |
| Overall | | 4.0 |
Mission: Impossible Blu-ray Movie Review
Reviewed by Martin Liebman May 29, 2021Paramount has released Director Brian De Palma's thrilling 1996 franchise starter 'Mission: Impossible' to Blu-ray with a newly remastered 1080p transfer. The film made its Blu-ray debut in 2007 and was released to the UHD format in 2018. This disc also utilizes the same Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack from the 2018 UHD disc (the original Blu-ray included a lossy 5.1 Dolby Digital track). New beyond the newly remastered video is a gallery of trailers for all of the films in the franchise; otherwise, the supplemental content is identical to what was found on the 2007 disc.
The Impossible Missions Force (or IMF for short) is assigned the task of shadowing and ultimately apprehending the buyer and seller of one half of the NOC List, a highly classified document that contains both the code names and actual names of undercover agents. IMF veteran Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) as well as master of disguise Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) lead the team. Though the entire team works smoothly in tandem, inching ever so close to their objective, a series of mishaps and tragedies seemingly kills each member but Hunt before the night is over, leaving the agent shaken and confused at the precision of the retaliation against the team. Hunt is finally able to meet with IMF Director Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) and learns that the entire mission was a set-up to oust a mole in the agency, and now that the team has been eliminated, Hunt becomes a prime suspect. He manages to escape to a safe house before he is apprehended and begins to track down both the buyer of the list and the identity of the true mole. Hunt and Phelps's wife Claire (Emmanuelle Béart), herself a member of the team and surprise survivor of the botched mission, recruit former IMF agents Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) to aid in the theft of the NOC list from the source at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia and reveal the true threats to the security of agents around the world.
For a full film review, please click here.
Mission: Impossible Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality
Nice. This new Blu-ray is in every way a stunner on this format. The image is faithfully filmic, maintaining a very light and very flattering grain structure. The picture's film-fine quality is consistent throughout. This is seriously gorgeous. Details are resultantly sharp with no evidence of unnecessary grain dismemberment and detail smoothing. Facial qualities are tight and firm, highly revealing in every example of pore, hair, and line. Clothing is likewise sharp and accurate while various environments never want for sharper output. There's practically no room for more textural gain at this resolution. Colors are handsome; tonal output pushes a bit to the warm side, leaving faces looking a bit orange-red. Nevertheless, color output is pleasing with fine gradation subtleties, vibrant output to primaries, and perfectly deep and accurate black levels. Whites are crisp, too, perhaps a little less so with the on-screen titles but very much so considering white shirt collars and the like. The print is meticulously clean; there are no obvious print blemishes and certainly no encode artifacts. This is simply a film-perfect image.
Mission: Impossible Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality
For this Blu-ray release of Mission: Impossible, Paramount has simply ported over the UHD's Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack. For a full review, please click here.
Mission: Impossible Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras
Paramount's new Blu-ray release of the original Mission: Impossible contains all of the carryover content from the now very old 2007 Blu-ray
and adds nothing of real value; only some new trailers for all of the films in the series have been added. See below for a list of what's included and
please click here for full supplemental content coverage. This release
ships with a digital copy code and a non-embossed slipcover. It also includes a round decal sticker, measuring 4.5" in diameter with black text on
white, featuring the IMF logo and the words "Impossible Mission Force" lining the top and "United States of America" rounding along the bottom.
- Mission: Impossible -- Trailers (1080p): Included are trailers for Mission: Impossible (1:56), Mission: Impossible 2 (2:01), Mission: Impossible 3 (1:39), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2:17), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2:27), and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2:27).
- Mission: Remarkable - 40 years of Creating the Impossible
- Mission: Explosive Exploits
- Mission: Spies Among Us
- Mission: Catching the Train
- Mission: International Spy Museum
- Mission: Agent Dossiers
- Excellence in Film
- Generation: Cruise
- Photo Gallery
- Mission: Marketing
Mission: Impossible Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation
This is a curious release with the excellent UHD version already on the market and that format gaining some traction over the years. But Blu-ray only fans long awaiting an upgrade now have it for both the video and audio departments. However, the lack of new supplemental content beyond those trailers is a bit disappointing. Granted, the new video transfer is very nice and those still exclusively 1080p will assuredly appreciate it. This is celebrating the film franchise's 25th anniversary and includes that car decal so hardcore Mission: Impossible fans might find the collected assortment of new content enticing enough to warrant a purchase, but there's otherwise little incentive to buy, particularly for those who are already enjoying the UHD.
