Mission Impossible Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
15 of the most interesting Mission Impossible easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Mission Impossible movie message.

An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.
Genre | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Director | Brian De Palma |
Stars | Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny |
IMDB score | 7.1 |
Mission Impossible Movie Trivia

Tom Cruise suggested to John Woo to have this shot during the knife fight scene, no CGI was used and a steel cable was attached to the knife.
The poem that Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) forces the antagonist (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to read was written by a linguist, Neal Whitman, and included all the allophones of all the phonemes in the English language.
Mission Impossible Movie Easter Eggs

Ethan Hunt uses the code "Alpha 113" AKA "A113", the number that is used as an easter egg in Pixar movies. This is because the director, Brad Bird, directed The Incredibles (2004), Rottatoille (2007) and The Incredibles 2 (2018), all pixar movies.

Spotted writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them cameo in Mission Impossible 3 (2006)
Music from Die Hard is teased as Ethan escapes from a building shirtless & shoeless.
Mission Impossible Movie Foreshadowing
- Turning the tables