Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Movie Review [9.3/10]
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol - Review
Review by The Charlotte Observer
You’re going to want to spring for IMAX tickets to “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” If Tom Cruise is willing to hang off the walls of the tallest building in the world, where do you get off going cheap?
“Ghost Protocol” is the most action-packed, most jokey and self-aware, most James Bond-ish of all the Cruise “Mission” films. Animation veteran Brad (“The Incredibles”) Bird creates a “Here’s what I can do with live actors” highlight reel of a film. And Cruise, as Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt, sets out to save the world from yet another Russian gone mad, yet another Russian with access to nukes and his finger on the button.
An opening gambit has a slick IMF agent brought down by a lethal blonde assassin (Lea Seydoux) in Budapest. Paula Patton is Jane, the IMF agent who arrives – too late. “She left him just alive enough for me to see him die.”
Review by newsreview.com
When an apparent terrorist bomb destroys part of the Kremlin, the blame falls on Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Missions Force, invoking the “Ghost Protocol”—that long-threatened disavowal “if you or any of your agents are killed or captured.” Now, with few resources and only a skeleton crew (Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner) Hunt must get to the bottom of who really bombed the Kremlin, and why. Director Brad Bird and writers Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec deliver the best installment in the franchise since Paramount reworked Bruce Geller’s old TV series into a James Bond-style vehicle for Cruise.
Review by MSN
I think that just about everybody’s figured out by now that, his personal eccentricities and excellent physical condition and all that notwithstanding, Tom Cruise really isn’t a terribly hard-edged guy, and he really does his best work when he’s not trying to come off as one.
We all remember how he just couldn’t sell that “You’ve never seen me very upset” line to Henry Czerny (hey, whatever happened to that dude?) in the first “Mission: Impossible” movie back in 1996. The subsequent evolution of his “M:I” character, top secret agent Ethan Hunt, over the course of, as of now, three films, has seen him morph from rather unconvincing piqued avenger to occasionally stressed-out nice-guy espionage ops manager. For this viewer, one of the least appealing aspects of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” is just how well all of the operatives on the same side get along with each other.
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