Mission:Impossible

I LOVE this movie. Still. To. This. Day.

My local arthouse got a print for a DePalma series, and to finally see this on the big screen without video constraints or poor masters…Wow!
They unfortunately had to run the matrixed Dolby backup as the ac3 was shot, but it DOES have the heavy low end proving the Laserdisc is indeed the theatrical audio and every subsequent release has been remixed to tame the sound.
The 5.1 is better than the 2.0, and the 2.0 PCM is without the print deficiencies i.e. boominess, loss of detail, some shrillness from the analog optical.

The LD is quite close, in fact darn near perfect for NTSC video. I only noticed one shot with different color to the home video releases, but they can never touch the proper levels of an actual release print.

I’ll start a thread in preservations.

One of those films I will always stick up for.
My favorite Cruise film and IMO his best performance.
My favorite DePalma film.
One of the best films of the 90’s.
The only truly good film in the series.

Side note: The audio went out at the head of Reel 2 before it had to be restarted, leaving the elevator shaft scene to play in silence. “Hasta lasagna don’t get any on ya.” 😉