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Mission: Impossible

1996 · directed by Brian De Palma · 111 min
25,554 feet · Prominence
339th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion

How this film scores

Draw78

$458m worldwide in 1996 — $963m in today's money.

As released$458mIn 2026 money$963mRank204 of 8,589In 19963 of 170

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise63

Critics 63, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 63.

Critics63 → 31Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy72

Judged directly: The vault drop is universally parodied.

Verdict72 of 100IMDb7.2 from 517kWikipedia58k views a monthAge30 years

Scored beside it · 248 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 78 praise 63 legacy 72averages 71, which places it at25,554 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tom Cruise23,187 ft