This was famed Pixar director Brad Bird""s live-action directorial debut film.It was the first film in the series to be released in IMAX.The film""s running gag was that many of IMF""s high-tech gadgets didn""t work as expected: the mission message delivered in a decrepit Russian phone booth that didn""t self-destruct, unreliable glass-scaling suction gloves, the facial latex mask-making machine, etc.The self-centered star""s operatic co-star was Romèo (4th billed Allan Jones, in one of his two opera performances in the film)...the taint of generations given hrough his father.He smells her hair and her perfume, and eagerly leans over and cannot resist kissing her full on the mouth while she is under the influence of the ether.And when we do, I""m the one who kills him." Bruce reminded him about the price of vengeance, and then stated: "We""re the same," because both of them had their parents killed by a maniac.There""s something about the dead silence of an office building at night.Not quite real.The traffic down below was something hat didn""t have anything to do with me.(He casually placed his revolver on his desk top).Suddenly, a brooding appearance of a towering apparition was mirror-reflected in Marlowe""s office window-pane.