Mission: Impossible (1996) ft. Ryan Pappolla

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The movie kicks off with Coach Bombay working a mission for the Impossible Missions Force—IMF, if you will. He’s the guy in the chair while Agent Ethan Hunt is out in the field, getting important information from a target and then killing him—because sometimes, you gotta.

We then meet Jim Phillips, Ethan’s boss at the IMF. He receives the intel that Ethan retrieved. The team comes together to plan their next mission, and it’s a big one. An agent named Alexander has gone rogue and plans to steal a list of all undercover agents to sell to a buyer. The mission seems to be going according to plan.

After Alexander puts the list on a floppy disk, everything goes south. The agents begin getting killed—first Coach Bombay, then Jim Phillips. Even Ethan’s wife, Claire, is killed. To make matters worse, when Ethan finds Alexander, he’s already dead, and there’s nothing in his pocket.

In a haze, Ethan contacts the IMF and ends up meeting with the director, Eugene. Eugene explains that the entire mission was a decoy. Apparently, there’s an arms dealer known as “Max,” and the operation to steal the list was part of a mission called Job 314. Everyone was supposed to die. Eugene is suspicious of Ethan—especially since $120,000 mysteriously appeared in Ethan’s bank account. Realizing he’s in trouble, Ethan uses a piece of explosive gum (courtesy of Coach Bombay) to blow his way out and escape.

Ethan starts doing some research and reads the Bible, finding Job 3:14. He begins sending coded emails to every address he thinks could belong to Max.

He’s shocked when Claire shows up alive. Apparently, Jim warned her just before his death that the mission was compromised, so she faked her death to escape.

Ethan eventually gets a reply from Max with instructions on when to meet. He’s picked up in a car and taken to her—turns out Max is a woman. Ethan tells her the list she has is fake. She doesn’t believe him, but he warns her that inserting it will trigger a tracking device. When it turns out he’s telling the truth, Ethan offers her the real list in exchange for $10 million and the identity of the mole behind Job 314.

Max agrees and gives Ethan a $150,000 cash advance, which he uses to assemble a team of blacklisted agents, including computer expert Luther and pilot Franz.

The new team begins planning an elaborate mission to break into the CIA at Langley. In an absolutely iconic scene, Ethan is lowered from the ceiling to avoid pressure sensors and successfully steals the real list on a disc.

Back at the safe house, Franz tries to take the disc, but Ethan pulls off some sleight of hand and confuses him. He decides to trust Luther with the real disc.

Ethan learns that Eugene has arrested his parents. He calls him from a payphone and, after hanging up, sees Jim Phillips—somehow still alive. Jim claims that Eugene is the mole.

However, Ethan has already figured out that Jim is the traitor after realizing the Bible he used to look up the Job verse was stolen from the Drake Hotel in Chicago—where Jim once said he was stationed.

Ethan pretends to believe Jim and arranges a meeting with Max on a train to exchange the list. On the train, Ethan tells Max the list is beneath her seat, and she tells him where the money is stashed. Meanwhile, Luther jams the signal so she can’t upload the list.

Claire goes to collect her share from Jim but realizes too late that he’s actually Ethan in disguise. When the real Jim shows up and pulls a gun to take the money, Ethan streams the confrontation live to Eugene, exposing Jim as the mole.

Jim kills Claire and climbs to the roof of the train, trying to escape in a helicopter piloted by Franz. But Ethan also gets on the roof, hooks the chopper to the train, and forces it into a tunnel. Miraculously, it doesn’t crash immediately. Ethan jumps onto the helicopter and uses another piece of explosive gum to blow it up—of course, surviving the blast.

Eugene arrives, arrests Max, and recovers the list.

Ethan and Luther are reinstated in the IMF, though Ethan isn’t sure if he wants to return. On the flight home, a flight attendant approaches him and covertly offers a new mission—this time as team leader.

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