I was skeptical about this latest installment of the Mission Impossible tome. The second and third movies were what I would call good not great. They highly overused the masks that can make someone look identically to other people, when you have no way of knowing if the person on the screen is actually who they are pretending to be you definitely lose something in the film.
The premise of the Ghost Protocol follows the formula that Mission Impossible movies know and love. A mission goes terribly awry and everyone is disavowed, then the real mission begins. In this case the gang has to break in to the Kremlin in order to extract information about a terrorist. While there the mission is sabatoged and they are blamed for an explosion and labeled as terrorists. This is not new territory for the MI crew but it always makes for an interesting story.
All in all I would definitely recommend this movie as a weekend distraction. The action is exciting, the movie is pretty fast paced. Cruise does a pretty good job once again reprising his roll as Ethan Hunt, but Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg steal the show. Pegg's computer man turned field agent is remarkably funny as he strikes an almost Mr. Bean-esque quality without taking it so far that you can't believe he was ever allowed to be a spy. Renner plays an analyst who gets swept up into the mission, and he does so very well. It is an MI film so you can expect Tom Cruise to dangle precariously from a high building, someone to hang from a wire dangerously close to the ground and someone to have a secret that the team does not know about.
If you are looking for an escape movie where things blow up and there are lots of hot people, then this film is for you.
Happy Viewing!
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