Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Film Review
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is directed by Brad Bird and stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Michael Nyqvist, and Paula Patton.
Plot
Ethan Hunt is broken out of a Russian prison by IMF team members and begins his search for an international terrorist who has successfully stolen Russian arming codes for their nuclear missiles. They must first identify him and the only way to do so is to break into the Kremlin archives. The end result is that much of the Kremlin is destroyed and now Russian agents are after the IMF. They track the thief, now identified as Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), to Dubai where an attempt to con him out of the codes fail. They then follow him to Mumbai where it's believed he will transmit the signals to launch the Russian missiles at the USA.
Review
I think this one is better than Mission: Impossible III.
It's amazing how Brad Bird, who directed The Incredibles and Ratatouille could make a great Mission: Impossible movie. And this is also his first live action movie.
This is also probably the most amazing Mission: Impossible movie I've watched so far. The action is amazing, the cinematography is amazing, especially with all the wide shots of all the stunts.
This is the first movie where the Impossible part of Mission: Impossible is accurate. In the other movies, the mission was just really hard, but their gadgets always worked. Not here. Early in the movie, Ethan gets the "this message will self-destruct" message only for it to not do that, he hast to hit it to get it do self destruct.
The thing they use to make their masks, it breaks. When Ethan is using those gloves to climb the building, one of them malfunctions. Their laser-cutter thing malfunctions, everything goes wrong with their technology in the movie.
Pretty much every scene feels like it's important, and it's like "hey, we gotta get this going, something bad is going to happen". Like that scene with Benji (Simon Pegg) and Ethan in Russia. Them distracting the guard and having a fake hallway is great.
There are a lot of great scenes in here, such as Ethan climbing the building, that scene in the same building where an assassin and a terrorist are exchanging nuclear codes for diamonds, but IMF is setting this thing up where they thing it's happening, but it isn't, they're tricking each other. The chase through the sandstorm is also amazing. Pretty much every action scene is amazing.
Now let's talk about the characters. Tom Cruise is once again amazing as Ethan Hunt. It's said in the beginning that he and Julia from Mission: Impossible III divorced, she died, Ethan killed her killers, and he ended up in prison for it. But at the end, it shows that she really was alive, but he was protecting her. In this movie, he's pretty much the leader of IMF now.
Jeremy Renner is good as William Brandt, he's forced to work with Ethan after the secretary of IMF is killed, and it turns out that before that, he was assigned to protect Ethan and Julia, and was there while she was killed.
Simon Pegg is really good as Benji, he's the tech guy and the comic relief of the movie. He's just a minor character in Mission: Impossible III, but in here, we get more scenes with him.
Paula Patton isn't bad as Jane Carter, who joins Ethan's team to stop Hendricks from launching nuclear codes. I can't think of much else to say.
Michael Nyqvist is Kurt Hendricks, the villain who wanted nuclear codes to launch a nuclear strike for evil reasons. Can't think of much to say.
Also, Ving Rhames comes back as Luther for just one scene and it's great seeing him back.
Overall, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is definitely my favorite of the series so far and a really amazing action movie.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol gets a 9.5/10.
Come back tomorrow for a review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
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