Movie Review: Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
By Jose
Plot:
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.
Cast:
Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Paula Patton (Jane), Simon Pegg (Benji), Jeremy Renner (Brandt), Michael Nyqvist (Hendricks/Cobalt), Samuli Edelmann (Wistrom), Vladimir Mashkov (Sidorov), Lea Seydoux (Sabine Moreau)
Review:
You will either leave the theater excited and satisfied or scratching your head.
Let me go ahead and just say the Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol is a great action packed movie. It is fun and exciting Then leaving you wanting to see what will be the IMF’s team next mission. But if you are used to the “realistic” action/spy/terrorist type movies we have been getting. And “realistic” meaning what goes on and what is done and shown makes sense in the real world. Then the head scratching will commence.
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol delivers some seriously great action sequences and technology but they are held in the fantasy world. I mean one of the best action scenes in the movie is where Ethan Hunt (Cruise), has to free climb up a sheer glass side of the tallest building in Dubai. Using only gecko like gloves and nothing else. Really cool scene but really unbelievable. How can I sit there and see Ethan Hunt where gloves and climbing the building with only his gloved hands and barley any footing and not say to myself that (no pun intended) is impossible in any way or form. Oh then he loses a glove so then it is only one glove. So that means that Ethan Hunt has some dynamic upper body strength in order to accomplish this? Really?
Many other scenes make you stare in both wonder and disbelief. The end sees the villain Hendricks/Cobalt being an somewhat older guy than Ethan Hunt matching him in fighting skills. Yet all Hendricks is is a crazy physicist out to nuke the world to create another world from the ashes. Who can also fall head first down a long drop onto a car then concrete floor and survive.
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol was great. The screening we caught was in an imax theater and our seats, even a bit closer than I would have liked, were decent seats. The sound system was great too. Overall a great movie experience. The movie brought Ethan Hunt back to IMF after a stint in a Russian jail. Reuniting him with Benji who is now a field agent. And new comer Jane. There is a bit of a mystery with Ethan’s past specifically his wife, but I don’t want to spoil it here because there is a connection to other things/people throughout the film. Searching for launch codes to nuclear missiles. Brings them to the Kremlin searching for information on Cobalt. Really awesome explosion happens a bit later on. What I liked about MI-Ghost Protocol is the comedy bits. They were not forced and flowed naturally, breaking the tension that an action movie brings. I have talked about this before but I love it when movies do this especially serious/action/horror movies. The comedy bits help “cleanse the pallet” so to speak. Given us a break from constant action.
The cast was great as well. Really liked the inclusion of Brandt (Renner). He worked really well with the trio. Benji (Pegg) was hilarious and perfect in his role. And Jane (Patton) was gorgeous and wonderful. Not sure if I have see her before but good lord was she nice to see. I do have to mention this, I caught it along with Robert, but there seemed to be some tension of the sexual kind between Ethan Hunt and Brandt. It becomes obvious during one scene where Brandt mentions the everyone has secrets and then looks at Ethan Hunt.
Final Thoughts:
Again it is not an outright complaint to the movie itself because it was good, but the fantastical action scenes really took me to suspend belief for this type of movie. The cast was great and Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol will hopefully do well enough to get another Mission Impossible movie made with this cast.
Ratings: 4 out of 5
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