Movie Review: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Director: Brad Bird

Starring: Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Jeremy Renner (Brandt), Simon Pegg (Benji), Paula Patton (Jane)

Tom Cruise returns as IMF super agent, Ethan Hunt, in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. When Ethan Hunt and his IMF team are implicated in a bombing at the Kremlin, they are forced to go rogue in order to clear their names and save the world from nuclear war between the United States and Russia.

For those who worried about the fourth installment being a flop, like Mission: Impossible 3, you need not worry. What would seem like a typical genre exercise, is not. Cruise brought a fresh take to the series. The plot is not convoluted. The characters have depth beyond one-dimension. And action entertainment aside, the movie is actually funny (on purpose).

These welcomed changes mixed with the usual death defying stunts, cool gadgetry, car chases, espionage, disguises, and yes, Tom Cruise's flawless sprinting form, make Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol an unexpectedly fresh and a good movie definitely worth seeing.