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19. The Fuse Is Lit: Discussing Mission: Impossible 1 - 3 (1996 to 2006)


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“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”

In 1996, Paramount took a chance on Tom Cruise & his big screen version of the popular sixties TV show ‘Mission : Impossible’. A gamble that paid off handsomely to the tune of over $4B USD in global box office receipts.

Are all of the movies (7 to date) impossibly good? No (we’re looking at you M:I2). Are some better better than others? Yes. Do they get better as the series progresses? A topic worthy of debate. So…

Podcast hosts & M:I fans Stephen & Paul Nicholson accept the (not) impossible mission to rewatch, critique and rank all the movies, whilst also providing relevant movie information, box office grosses, critical and audience reception, budgets, facts and more. 

The movies covered in this episode are:

- Mission : Impossible (1996)

- Mission : Impossible 2 (2000)

- Mission : Impossible 3 (2006)

Come back next month for the concluding episode which looks at Ghost Protocol (2011), Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018) & Dead Reckoning Part One (2023).

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