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Mission: Impossible

1996 · directed by Brian De Palma · 111 min
25,368 feet · Prominence
387th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw78

Lifetime worldwide gross $458m, re-releases included; about $963m in 2026 money.

Rank210 of 11,051In 19963 of 191

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics63 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. 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 · 267 of 4,039 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, placing it at25,368 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Henry Czerny

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tom Cruise20,940 ftJon Voight19,162 ftJean Reno18,576 ftVing Rhames18,544 ftEmmanuelle Béart18,403 ftHenry Czerny18,399 ftVanessa Redgrave18,255 ftKristin Scott Thomas18,036 ftEmilio Estevez17,668 ft