This is edited in 2023 because I had omitted all details so I'm adding them now, but leaving below my earliest comment. In a few words: I'll never see this again.
So, the details:
It starts with Ethan and his team finishing a mission: he had a mask and they are successful of course.
On a plane, Jim Phelps receives a mission regarding a traitor who stole a list of CIA undercover agents. he'll have his usual team: Sarah Davies, Jack Harmon the tech guy, Hannah Williams, Claire Phelps his wife, and of course Ethan Hunt.
Prague - Phelps explains to them the plan, the mission, then we see their new tricks like exploding chewing gum and transmitter-glasses... basically: they leave the spyglasses in place so they can see what the traitor does... and the guy didn't notice... a pair of glasses that had no business being there and he didn't notice...
Moving on, they can't cut the power so Jack dies. Phelps calls for "Abort the plan" but Ethan refuses, wants to recover the disk (and I missed something here, who was this guy, did he just take the list from the computer there and copy it on his disk? I thought he had already stolen it... but who stole it really? I know who wants to sell it at the end...).
Ethan sees Phelps being killed on their communicators, and now he does call for Abort, but Sarah doesn't hear him - because Phelps had called for "cut all communications" probably.
Ethan sees Claire's car exploding. Sarah sees the "traitor" being killed, and when Ethan arrives running, he finds her dying. The disk is gone of course, and since the police has arrived, Ethan runs before tehy find him with a bloody knife in hand and two bodies.
Ethan calls for a pick-up and to inform them that the disk is gone. Kittridge meets with him, he's in Prague too. The man sounds very understanding, too much really. Ethan blames himself for the deaths of his whole team, then he realises that there's another team all around them, and it comes out that Kittridge suspected some agent to have been corrupted, so this whole mission was a fake, the "traitor" was one of his men, it was a "mole hunt", and Ethan's the only one alive, plus his family has received lots of money lately.
Kittridge loses the fake nice-attitude: "you have bribed, cajoled and killed, and you have done it using loyalties on the inside". So Ethan uses the chewing-gum and escapes. He runs.
It was a trick to see who would steal the disk, but it was a fake disk, the guy says.
Ethan goes back to their place, where they made the plan, but doesn't find the money he was looking for, and everything he'd need. There's a computer though, and he spends the rest of the night trying to contact the guy Max who was the corruptor. While he's there, Claire arrives not knowing that Jim's dead.
She came now because it's 4am, exactly when Jim said to meet.
Ethan makes some contacts and meets some people. He makes a deal with the woman who bought the list from "Job", the traitor's nickname. He delivers the list of agents, Max delivers Job. Claire wants to help. Ethan needs help and looks for other disavowed agents in the nearby.
Ethan explains to these two men that he wants to break in and steal from Langley, Virginia, inside CIA headquarters. They're Luther and Krieger. It's even harder than they thought when Ethan explains all the security measures there are. Still, they do it, the four of them.
Ethan stops Krieger from killing anyone though.
The famous scene where Hunt descends from the ceiling, then a rat arrives and Krieger lets him fall for a moment then brings him back up after Ethan takes the disc where he copied the agents' list - called the NOC list - but then Krieger lets his knife fall and they have to escape. Krieger is a bit hostile, afraid he won't get his money, while Claire is rather too friendly, after all she's a recent widow, is not right.
Ethan gives the list to Luther, to safeguard it, not let it get out.
Kittridge targets his mom and uncle to have him come out. Phelps turns up and joins Ethan.
They talk, and Jim says the mole was Kittridge, but we are shown that Jim faked his own injuries and that Krieger killed Sarah. Hannah was inside the car when Claire blew it up. Jim himself caused Claire's empty car to explode.
Jim asks Ethan to tell nobody he's alive. Jim gives the disk to Max, but Luther is there to jam the signal so she can't send it out. The money is in the baggage car, so Jim and Claire meet there to take it... only it's Ethan wearing Jim's face that hears her words. He wasn't sure about her, now he knows, but now Kittridge knows Jim's alive too, he's on the train and communicating with Ethan.
About to kill Ethan, instead Jim shoots Claire first and only hits Ethan. So Ethan can go after him, on top of a very, very fast speeding train. Krieger is on a helicopter to retrieve Jim, but after a long adventure, and Krieger really wanting to kill Ethan, He uses the chewing gum to make the helicopter explode.
Kittridge meets Max, Luther gives him the disk. Now Luther is off the disavowed list.
Ethan is not sure about himself, what he'll do, but on the plane he is given what he knows is a new mission, like it happens to team leader, like we saw happen with Jim.
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Peter Graves was Jim Phelps for 178 episodes, and was always my favourite! I didn't see them all, unfortunately, but in all the eps I watched he was always my favourite, then the movie was made and Jim became traitor Jon Voight!! Not acceptable.
Aside from this, Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is your usual Cruise. Jean Reno has one look and one outfit and sticks to it; Ving Rhames as Luther is ok!! Max is Vanessa Redgrave, the best thing of this film; Sarah is Kristin Scott-Thomas in a role sadly too short, and Claire is Emmanuelle Beart, who does nothing else but purring at ethan like a cat...
One of the very rare cases where later films are much much better than the previous ones.
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Ethan Hunt - Tom Cruise
Jim Phelps - Jon Voight
Claire - Emmanuelle Beart
Kittridge - Henry Czerny
Krieger - Jean Reno
Luther - Ving Rhames
Sarah - Kristin Scott-Thomas
Max - Vanessa Redgrave
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