Director: Brad Bird
Screenplay: Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, based on the television series Mission: Impossible created by Bruce Geller
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton
Running Time: 133 minutes
Genre: Spy, thriller, action
After escaping from a Russian prison, secret agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise), a member of the top secret Impossible Mission Force, finds himself pitted against a ruthless terrorist (Michale Nyqvist) who has stolen the codes to launch Russian nuclear missiles and plans to use them to start an all out nuclear war. However Hunt has the aid of Jane Carter (Patton) who has her own personal reasons for targeting the terrorist group, computer specialist Benji Dunn (Pegg), and IMF chief analyst William Brandt (Renner). However Hunt and his team have been set up to take the blame for an attack on the Kremlin, and the US Government have instituted a "Ghost Protocol", which effectively means that they have disavowed all knowledge of Hunt and his team's existence.
This film is the fourth movie to be spun off from the popular Mission: Impossible TV series which ran from 1966 to 1973, and is best enjoyed as a ride. Shown in the IMAX format it is a delirious range of spectacular action set pieces, however it does get bogged down in the dialogue scenes. It's full of narrow escapes and miraculous survival, however while the film is running it's too entertaining to really bother with plot details. The movie is like a James Bond film. It sets out to give the audience an entertaining ride with plenty of action and stunts and special effects and it succeeds in that. The cast are engaging enough, especially Simon Pegg who injects warmth and humour into his part as newly minted agent Benji Dunn. The main problem is that the storyline plays a little too much like a video game, and the villains never really make much of an impression.
It's an entertaining, enjoyable movie and it's a lot of fun.
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