When the Kremlin falls victim to a devastating attack, the IMF is dismantled. Ethan Hunt and his renegade team embark on a high-stakes mission to unearth the true culprit, proving their innocence while facing perilous challenges worldwide.
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Although it lacks some of its original slickness and more surprising twists, Ghost Protocol really breathes new life into the franchise.
MovieFreak.com Sara Michelle FettersMission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is, in a word, awesome. Better than that, it is the first film in Tom Cruise's TV-to-feature series that I have enjoyed start to finish, beginning to end and for every single moment of its two hour-plus running time.
National Newspaper Publishers Association Dwight Brown Mission accomplished. MSN Movies Glenn Kenny . it's pretty much state-of-the-art. Detroit News Tom LongMission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is top-notch popcorn entertainment, chock-full of dazzling stunts and heroic moments, played out at a near-hysterical pitch.
Entertainment Weekly Owen GleibermanPowered by Cruise's moxie, Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol proves that in a Hollywood action-ride culture drenched in fake adrenaline, it's cathartic to encounter the real thing.
New Yorker David Denby "Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun. Chicago Reader J. R. JonesAs usual with the series, the movie combines a plot line a toddler could understand with gadgets that would baffle an engineering Ph.D.
TIME Magazine Richard Corliss I'm thinking it, so I might as well say it: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is no Fast Five. TheWrap Alonso DuraldeIt's a rousing gasp machine that gives the flagging franchise the kick in the pants it sorely needed, and it marks the most impressive segue from cartoons to features since Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
Decent Films Steven D. GreydanusSo preposterously entertaining that it makes watching other recent Hollywood action spectacles feel like work.
leonardmaltin.com Leonard MaltinUnlike most movie series, this one has actually improved with each new installment. This fourth entry. is the best yet, a breathtaking, globe-trotting action yarn that pulls out all the stops.
Film.com William GossJust as newly gritty heroes seem to have run their course (fingers crossed), Cruise and Bird are doing their damnedest to maintain the escapist thrills that we as audiences will always choose to accept.
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer Ghost Protocol is a very good thrill ride and Cruise is better than he's been in a long time. Tribune News Service Roger MooreBrad Bird passes his audition for a career as a live-action director. And Ghost Protocol more than makes its bones as an argument for why Tom Cruise should continue in this role as long as his knees, and his nerves, hold up.
