Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew up... on a farm in Wisconsin. His father died after a long illness, so his mom and Uncle Donald are the only family he has left.
Visiting... Prague for a covert mission for the Impossible Missions Force, a branch of the CIA. Five of them were sent on a mission after a former KGB Line X officer now working the international black market selling intelligence. They were told he wants the "NOC" (Non-Official Cover) agent list, and agents will be dead if the list gets in the hands of the wrong people.
Profession... former spy. He was fired after his latest mission went terribly wrong. The others on his mission are all dead, and his superiors blame him. They suspect Ethan is working with an arms dealer who wants to get a top secret "NOC" list of undercover agents. Ethan is determined to clear his name.
Interests... surfing the web. He is trying to search for clues to the real mole. He’s stumbled onto some cryptic messages from the Bible’s Book of Job.
Challenge... attempting the “Mount Everest” of hacks: getting the NOC list from a secured room in CIA's headquarters. It has a state of the art system with three levels of security. And if any one of these systems is set off, he’s history. To get through all of this, he's enlisted the help of few others, including two other agents that were disavowed like he was.
Personality... determined, fearless, and cocky. Despite what happened to him, Ethan remains confident in himself. He will not letting anything get in the way of his fight for justice. He never seems afraid – even if he is on top of a high-speed train with a helicopter chasing him and a tunnel coming up…
Get to Know him in...
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When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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In the 4th installment of the Mission Impossible series, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks (Nyqvist), who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
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Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
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With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
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Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.
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When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
