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Rating: 8 stars

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Seen on: 12/16/2011

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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Directed by Brad Bird

Action

Most recently watched by noahphex, sensoria

Overview

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Rated PG-13 | Length 133 minutes

Actors

Tom Wilkinson | Tom Cruise | Ivan Shvedoff | Michael Nyqvist | Ving Rhames | Andreas Wisniewski | Simon Pegg | Michelle Monaghan | Jeremy Renner | Brian Caspe | Dmitry Chepovetsky | Paula Patton | Keith Dallas | Teddy Newton | Darren Shahlavi | Mike Dopud | Ladislav Beran | Anil Kapoor | Vladimir Mashkov | Nicola Anderson | Samuli Edelmann | Randy Hall | Paul Lazenby | Ilia Volok | April Stewart | Léa Seydoux | Goran Navojec | Mihály Szabados | Pavel Kříž | Ivo Novák | Jan Pavel Filipenský | Josh Holloway | Tammy Hui | Miraj Grbic | Martin Hub | Tomáš Valík | Marek Dobeš | Stephen Lobo | David Stuart | Sabrina Morris | Jiri Kraus | Gina Hirsch | Pavel Cajzl | Roger Narayan | Petra Lustigová | Dawn Chubai | Pavel Bezdek | Jessica Belkin | Andrej Bestcastnyj | Ales Putik | Claudia Vaseková | Vitaly Kravchenko | Ali Olomi | Anastasiya Novikova | Ghaleb El Saadi | Daniel Clarke | Michael Rys | Mustafa Alyassri

Viewing Notes

Splurged and caught the first showing on Friday on IMAX. We had to pick the kids up at school and hustle directly to the movie theater to make the 3:30 showing but it was worth it since it was just us and about 30 other people in the huge-ass 300+ seat IMAX theater.

Our viewing suffered a bit since we sat a little too close to the front, owing to the fact that I was on crutches and fell once going up the steps and didn’t want to risk going further up.

Still, the sound and picture on IMAX were decidedly better than the regular screens at this theater, which tend to be smaller and suffer from sound or projection problems often.

This is probably the funnest, and funniest of the MI movies. I attribute that to director Brad Bird, who managed to pair action and humor so well in the animated The Incredibles. In fact, M:I-GP feels like a live action Incredibles in some ways. That’s not a knock by any means.

I also enjoyed the more humanistic approach to the film. Despite being filled with all sorts of tech gadgets, the fact that most of them fail, and the team has to rely on themselves and good old-fashioned teamwork, lends a nice humanistic feel to the movie that I sincerely appreciated.

I also felt that they made a conscious effort to portray Tom Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, as older and frailer. This shit isn’t getting any easier for him and he’s not superhuman. It felt a bit like they might be setting it up to pass the torch on to a new person. And of course Jeremy Renner would be a great person to carry on in Cruise’s place.

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