Mission: Impossible

Filmed in Panavision, the 2.35:1 anamorphic picture looks brilliant, with perfect colour detail. The white lights of the CIA vaults are glowing with vibrancy and the visual effects are practically flawless. It looks much like the transfer of the earlier DVD but for those of you who only ever had the R1 version, the anamorphic transfer will be more than welcome.

The Dolby 5.1 sound design only really comes to life during the action scenes, or whenever Danny Elfman's score kicks in. For a film of this kind, Mission Impossible is relatively quiet for most of the time. But when it's loud, it does sound pretty good with effects coming across sharp, deep and spacious.

Mission: Remarkable is a 10-minute feature of the entire series, yet two minutes are spent on MiII and 30 seconds on MiIII. A meaningless fluff extra if there ever was one.

Explosive Exploits is about Tom Cruise doing all his own stunts, but mainly focuses on the hanging wire scene and the bit where he escapes from the restaurant and the cascading water.

Spies Among Us features real-life ex-intelligence agents and how they went about their daily spy routine. Nothing really interesting, though one assumes that stuff is classified.

Impossible Gadgetry is hosted by an ex-agent, who takes you around his museum, filled with spy stuff that he obviously nicked from the office before he retired. Kinda interesting, but we don't see anything really cool, like a Jacuzzi that can turn into a rocket launcher, or a helicopter that is also a wetsuit.

Catching The Train is a brief breakdown of how the special effects were achieved in the film's final act. It's so short that you'll deny it even happened and you'll be none the wiser as to how they actually did it because they don't show you anything.

Agent Dossiers, seen briefly in the film, are also here for your reading pleasure.

Excellence In Film is sort of a music video, featuring clips of Cruise in various movies throughout his career. Rather poncy, methinks!

2 acceptance speeches (BAFTA and MTV awards - how different can you get?) by Cruise are included. As such speeches often are, they're uncomfortable, awkward and never seem to end, as he goes on and on about dreams and the arts.

Trailers, teasers, TV spots, and a photo gallery are also on there. Ooohhh!

This new DVD has been rated 15, even though the original film was a PG. This is because of the extra features, which raise the overall rating.