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The Mission: Impossible feature films, based on the TV
series of the same name, have spawned three films, with a fourth one
currently in pre-production. Though these films were
very profitable, many fans felt that they ignored the elaborate
plotting that was a significant feature of the TV series, and focused
too much on Tom Cruise, whose performances they accused of being "star
turns," rather than on the team aspect of the series. The first movie
was somewhat closer to the spirit of the original series than the
second one, which focused more on elaborate action, rather than
espionage. The third movie was arguably the closest in spirit to the
series. Reversing the idea of the series, the movies' villains tended
to know the whole plan, rather than the IMF; indeed, the villains in
the first two films were rogue or former members of IMF, with an
"insider" plot in the third movie. But none of the films were
considered true adaptations of the series.
Fans were also upset that Jim Phelps, team leader in the TV series,
became a traitor in the first movie, selling the details of government
agents to an arms dealer. As a result, several actors
from the original TV series declined invitations to make cameo
appearances in the films--the role of Jim Phelps went to Jon Voight,
while no other characters from the series appeared in the final
version. Voight's lack of resemblance to Graves and his Phelps
becoming a traitor and even being killed in the first movie, in fact,
has led some fans to conclude that he was never even actually acting
out the real James Phelps. Greg Morris was reportedly so disgusted
with the first film's treatment of the Phelps character that when he
went to see the movie, he walked out of the theater before it ended.
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