Mission impossible: Ghost Protocol Review

Quick description.

Everyone’s favorite secret agent, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is back for some more impossible missions. He’s out to foil “Cobalt” who is looking for nuclear launch codes, and he’s brought his team of… More secret agents. Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner, join tom cruise in the search to stop Cobalt, but things get complicated when Ghost protocol is enacted. What’s Ghost protocol? Well watch the movie.  

Quick Review.

Rating: 8.5 tom cruise sunglasses out of 10

Mission Impossible 4 is the best action movie out so far this year. Although there’s still half a year left to find out if it’s the best action movie of the year. Why? Because it has everything that an action movie needs: good chase scenes, nuclear missiles, intense music, and cool locations. If you’re looking for more, this might not be the movie for you, but if you want to see an archetypal action/spy movie, like Die hard, or Goldeneye, then Mission Impossible is the best choice for you. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Mission impossible 4, it’s probably the best one yet.

Detailed analysis

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Alright, although it doesn’t have the most creative story ever, it’s probably one of the better spy thrillers. Sure, at some points it feels like tom cruise has a batman utility belt, “Thank goodness we brought our slideable hall simulating hologram to fool the guard.” Whatever, it’s Mission Impossible. And I actually found some of their fancy gadgets more realistic than the ones they had in, like 1995, I have iPhone apps that do the same stuff their little machines were doing in this movie.

The story has some issues, in the fact that it’s exactly the same as any other action movie with nuclear missiles in it. Although with this one they pulled it off better than other movies, it is after all, Mission Impossible. It never fails to be entertaining, from Tom Cruise’s real stunts climbing up the tallest building in the world, to the cool ending fight scene in the crazy future parking garage. Speaking of which: the crazy future parking lot. They did a good job of showing actual injury (for the first time in the movie) but nonetheless Tom Cruise was limping around. It looked pretty intense to have them both limping around and trying to go from sliding moving platforms to their objective.

A few new characters are introduced in this movie, like Jane Carter. Her entrance was a little weird, because no one really knew who she was, and then they were like best friends. William Brandt is also a new character who seems to be some kind of lowly analyst, but turns out to be a secret agent. His backstory goes onto build some good tension between him and the test of the team, but it resolves pretty nicely towards the end of the film, where we get a couple cameo appearances. Ving Rhames character, Luther Stickell shows up, who by the way they could have called earlier in the film so many times that it’s not even funny. Then at the end he’s having drinks with tom cruise and I’m like “where were you.” Michelle Monaghan also has a brief cameo at the end, turns out her character is alive. But don’t read that last part if you haven’t seen the movie.

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