12 Movies to Watch If You Like Mission: Impossible
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch these movies.
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Beat the Algorithm a recurring column dedicated to providing you with relevant and diverse streaming recommendations based on your favorite movies. Today, we’re recommending films to watch if you’re a fan of Brian De Palma’s 1996 espionage thriller Mission: Impossible.
Without
Brian De Palma, there would be no
Mission: Impossible. No repelling off the Burj Khalifa, no slow-motion doves, no mask disguises, no HALO jump. De Palma’s established fluency with genre cinema, commanding visual style, and obsessive cinematography made for a uniquely energetic cloak and dagger caper. 1996’s
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Growing up, I was obsessed, I mean OBSESSED, with Jackie Chan and his unique blend of hard-hitting, defense-based action and side-splitting humor that he brought to films like
Rumble in the Bronx,
Jackie Chanâs First Strike, and so many others. I cannot count how many times â in childhood and later on in life â where Iâve stayed up late into the night to watch the Hong Kong action star. And, over the years, I began to familiarize myself with his earlier work (which dates back to the 1960s), and my love of the multi-talented and mysterious figure continues to grow. So, when I was given the opportunity to talk about the best Jackie Chan movies available on streaming services, digital rentals, and on old-fashioned physical media, I couldnât pass it up.
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Winners and Sinners, My Lucky Stars, and Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars, a trio of lowbrow comedies with martial arts scenes, were big Hong Kong cinema hits in the early 1980s.
Directed by Sammo Hung Kam Bo, who also starred in them, the films mixed comic actors such as John Shum Kin Fun and Eric Tsang Chi Wai with martial arts stars, and gave a lot of screen time to Jackie Chan. The stories feature Hung as the leader of a gang of ex-cons working on the right side of the law, with some help from Chan, who plays a cop.