With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
Direction
John Woo's doves-and-dual-wielding maximalism peaked here.
Stunts
Cruise did that cliff climb for real. No wires. Insane.
Director
John Woo
Tom Cruise
Ethan Hunt
Dougray Scott
Sean Ambrose
Thandiwe Newton
Nyah Hall
Ving Rhames
Luther Stickell
Richard Roxburgh
Hugh Stamp
John Polson
Billy Baird
Brendan Gleeson
McCloy
Rade Šerbedžija
Dr. Nekhorvich
William Mapother
Wallis
Dominic Purcell
Ulrich
Mathew Wilkinson
Michael
Nicholas Bell
McCloy's Accountant
Kee Chan
McCloy's Chemist
Kim Fleming
Larrabee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The cliff opening was shot at Dead Horse Point, Utah—not Australia. Cruise insisted on doing it without a safety net for certain shots.
This was Woo's only American film with final cut, and it shows: Hong Kong bullet ballet meets Hollywood excess. The studio hated the romance-heavy middle; Woo didn't care.
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2000
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