This is a movie review for "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol", released December 12, 2011.
I watched this on DVD [with subtitles yay!].
Trailer:
Cast:
Tom Cruise ("Mission Impossible" (1996) Ethan Hunt, "Top Gun" (1986) Maverick) - Ethan Hunt
Paula Patton ("2 Guns" (2013) Deb, "Deja Vu" (2006) Claire Kuchever) - Jane
Simon Pegg ("Shaun of the Dead" (2004) Shaun, "Paul" (2010) Graeme Willy) - Benji
Jeremy Renner ("The Avengers" (2012) Clint Barton / Hawkeye, "American Hustle" (2013) Mayor Carmine Polito) - Brandt
Michael Nyqvist ("John Wick" (2014) Viggo Tarasov, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series franchise (2009) Mikael Blomkvist) - Hendricks
Paula Patton ("2 Guns" (2013) Deb, "Deja Vu" (2006) Claire Kuchever) - Jane
Simon Pegg ("Shaun of the Dead" (2004) Shaun, "Paul" (2010) Graeme Willy) - Benji
Jeremy Renner ("The Avengers" (2012) Clint Barton / Hawkeye, "American Hustle" (2013) Mayor Carmine Polito) - Brandt
Michael Nyqvist ("John Wick" (2014) Viggo Tarasov, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series franchise (2009) Mikael Blomkvist) - Hendricks
Plot:
A while after "Mission: Impossible III", Ethan Hunt is called for another impossible mission. A different team breaks him out of a prison in Moscow and he receives the mission to break into the Kremlin ["the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation" and a "fortress within a city" says Wikipedia] to get a file that contains very important information. While Ethan and his team are in the Kremlin, they hear another voice on their channel which throws them off and says that someone is waiting for Team Leader's command to detonate an explosion in the Kremlin. [Long story short: a bomb sequence goes off in the Kremlin and Ethan is captured. He escapes the hospital and the Russian military/intelligence to go get another mission to fix the f**ked up relation between USA and Russia.]
Oh, and to add interest into the movie, let's also throw in the possibility of nuclear war, a smoking hot woman out for revenge to avenge the death of her lover/coworker, exotic traveling, and the consequence that if they fail they will not only be disavowed (as all IMF are already disavowed due to the Ghost Protocol) but will be labeled terrorists. Can Ethan and his team save the world from nuclear war? Can they fix the relation between the USA and Russia? Can they survive the impossible mission?
Criteria:
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a
little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used
more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used
a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around – characters, music,
theme, storyline, etc.
4/5 - Pulling all the stunts that the Mission: Impossible movies are known for, this is one of the best movies in the franchise since the Mission: Impossible (first movie) was released.
There are a few things that make me just shake my head and say "WTF were you thinking, Cruise?" like making Jane be a babbling idiot when she's trying to point out that Ethan is about to run into a herd of camels. Jane, use your words!
Another thing was the title opening because it made absolutely no sense when viewing it, until the end. The title opening is a summary of the whole movie. Want to watch a movie without watching it? Here you go...
The "fight the bad guy" scenes were better than those of II and III, but not by much. One unbelievable scene was that of Ethan chasing a baddie through a sandstorm. Like, seriously? Oh, and he flipped a car but both he and the baddie were able to get up and run away from it.
Another was the fight in the parking ramp. Yeah, let's just keep jumping for this briefcase that is falling from one level to another and being lifted up with a car. But then, the case falls to the bottom level and Ethan *SPOILERS* takes a car and drives it down into the shaft, smashing nose-first into the ground. He walks away from it, surprisingly, and ends the nuclear warhead from exploding in the USA via a button in the case RIGHT AS Benji knocks the sh*t out of a baddie and Jane plugs in the board into the circuitry to gain connection with the nuclear warhead. ...seriously, that's what happens.
I honestly was more interested in this movie because of Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner's appearance in this movie. I just think Pegg is a wonderfully awesome actor and he did not disappoint, though they should have made him shut his trap when they were in the Kremlin (because he didn't randomly ramble later in the movie). Renner was also amazing in this movie and had a deeper character than any of the other IMF agents, as revealed closer to the end of the movie. I think that Pegg and Renner were honestly the redeeming qualities/elements of this movie, comparing to everything else in this movie.
Though not the best movie ever, I am pleased that I have this one on DVD. It was a very entertaining movie [I laughed a lot!] and I would recommend this for those action fanatics out there. ;-)
4/5
Spoilers:
CinemaSins:
There are a few things that make me just shake my head and say "WTF were you thinking, Cruise?" like making Jane be a babbling idiot when she's trying to point out that Ethan is about to run into a herd of camels. Jane, use your words!
Another thing was the title opening because it made absolutely no sense when viewing it, until the end. The title opening is a summary of the whole movie. Want to watch a movie without watching it? Here you go...
The "fight the bad guy" scenes were better than those of II and III, but not by much. One unbelievable scene was that of Ethan chasing a baddie through a sandstorm. Like, seriously? Oh, and he flipped a car but both he and the baddie were able to get up and run away from it.
Another was the fight in the parking ramp. Yeah, let's just keep jumping for this briefcase that is falling from one level to another and being lifted up with a car. But then, the case falls to the bottom level and Ethan *SPOILERS* takes a car and drives it down into the shaft, smashing nose-first into the ground. He walks away from it, surprisingly, and ends the nuclear warhead from exploding in the USA via a button in the case RIGHT AS Benji knocks the sh*t out of a baddie and Jane plugs in the board into the circuitry to gain connection with the nuclear warhead. ...seriously, that's what happens.
I honestly was more interested in this movie because of Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner's appearance in this movie. I just think Pegg is a wonderfully awesome actor and he did not disappoint, though they should have made him shut his trap when they were in the Kremlin (because he didn't randomly ramble later in the movie). Renner was also amazing in this movie and had a deeper character than any of the other IMF agents, as revealed closer to the end of the movie. I think that Pegg and Renner were honestly the redeeming qualities/elements of this movie, comparing to everything else in this movie.
Though not the best movie ever, I am pleased that I have this one on DVD. It was a very entertaining movie [I laughed a lot!] and I would recommend this for those action fanatics out there. ;-)
4/5
Spoilers:
CinemaSins:
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