Mission: Impossible (1996)

Mission: Impossible (1996) is a film that falls into the action genre. It was directed by Brian De Palma and features Tom Cruise, who also produced and starred in the film. The screenplay was written by David Koepp and Robert Towne with a story by Koepp and Steven Zaillian. During their time in Kyiv, Jim Phelps and his new IMF team are sent to Prague on a mission to prevent rogue agent Alexander Golitsyn from stealing the CIA NOC list. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned when the list is taken and the entire team (including Golitsyn) is killed off one by one, leaving Ethan Hunt as the sole survivor. This leads to a debriefing between Hunt and IMF director Eugene Kittridge at a restaurant. While talking with Kittridge, Hunt discovers that another IMF team had been involved in the mission and comes to realize that it was all a set up to expose an IMF mole, with Golitsyn pretending to be the rogue agent.

It is suspected that the mole, known as ‘Job’, is collaborating with an arms dealer named ‘Max’ under the guise of ‘Job 314’. Fearing that Kittridge has caught onto the mole’s identity, Ethan manages to flee by using plastic explosives disguised as chewing gum. Upon returning to the Prague safe house, Ethan discovers that ‘Job 314’ refers to a Bible verse and that ‘Job’ is actually the mole’s codename. To everyone’s surprise, Phelps’s wife Claire appears at the safe house, explaining that Phelps had warned her of their compromised status before his death, allowing her to escape. Realizing that she possesses a fake NOC list with a tracking device, Ethan sets up a meeting with Max in which he warns her of the deception. Despite Max’s initial doubts, they both narrowly escape from Kittridge’s team during a raid. In order to obtain the real NOC list and reveal Job’s true identity, Ethan convinces Max to pay $10 million for the trade-off.