Ghost Protocol is by far the best out to the MI franchise series, Tom Cruise is at the top of his game and he showed that with every deliver of each line to the crazy ass stunts (delivered with precision). The question is where to begin... We open with an assignment in Budapest where a courier working for a person of interest code name "Cobalt" is to be intercepted by IMF again Trevor Hanaway. Agent Hanaway is killed by an assassin name Moreau who has taken the information that agent Hanaway was sent to intercept and take control of. Hanaway's team leader Jane Carter, and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn then extract Ethan Hunt (and his source Bogdan) from a prison in Moscow. Ethan is then recruited to lead his new team that consists of Carter and Dunn to infiltrate the secret Moscow Kremlin to locate files that will identify who Cobalt is. However; halfway through the mission Ethan discovers that they are being set up, and someone broadcasts over the IMF frequency, alerting the Russians to Hunt's team. Hunt, Carter and Dunn are able to escape, but a bomb goes off and destroys the Kremlin and now Russian agent Sidirov accuses Hunt and his team of putting together the attack and destroying the Kremlin.
The IMF extracts Hunt from Moscow, and the Russians have now called the attack an undeclared act of war. this leaves the US President no choice but to active "Ghost Protocol", this is an operation contingency plan that disavows the entire IMF. The blame will fall upon Hunt and his team and they are to be branded terrorist and inciting nuclear war. The IMF secretary is telling this to Ethan and explains the mission to Ethan, but before he can escape the secretary is killed by Russian security forces led by Sidirov leaving Hunt and William Brandt to find their own way out. The team then identifies "Cobalt" as Kurt Hendricks who is a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist which believe that the weak must die in order for the strong to survive. It was in fact Hendricks who bomb the Kremlin and he has acquired the Russian nuclear launch code device and he now needs the codes from the Budapest courier in order to a nuclear missile at San Francisco.
Ethan and his team have to ensure that the exchange between Moreau and Hendricks side-kick at the Wistrom does not take place. This is all going down that at the Burji Khalifa in Dubai. While Hunt is following Wistrom he quickly discovers that Wistrom is actually Hendricks in disguise and Hendricks now has the Russian Launch codes that was needed to active the device. Once Ethan and the team get their ground footing after loosing Hendreicks and Carter killing Moreau (after she attacked Dunn). Ethan accuses Brandt for keeping secrets due to his fighting skills that Ethan witness back at the hotel. Hunt leaves and advises the team that he is changing the plan, and Brandt tells Carter and Dunn what happened to Hunt and his wife and explains the real reason as to why Hunt ended up in a Russian prison. He explains that Julia was killed by a Serbian hit squad and this lead Ethan to kill the men responsible and that is how he was in the Russian prison.
Ethan is able to get assistance from Bogdan the man he helped in prison and he was able to track Hendricks in Mumbai. Ethan and the team work together to stop Hendricks and his plan of firing a missile in San Francisco. With Dunn manage the computer side, Brandt getting access inside the server room to take the satellite offline. Carter gets Brij Nath (Anil Kapoor) to give him the codes that is needed to override the satellite and to stop Hendricks from using the launch codes to active the device to then fire the missile and start nuclear war. Hunt is able to catch up to Hendricks and the two men fight over the launch code device then Hendricks jumps to his death when he attempted to out wit Hunt and take the device case. As this is going on Dunn kills Wistrom which allows Brandt to restore power and this provides Hunt with the ability to deactivated the launch code device.
Hunt is then confronted by Russian agent Sidirov He sees that Hunt has stop the device and the missile proving the IMF is indeed innocent of the Kremlin bombing. Sidirov then asks Hunt if he would like to go to the hospital which Ethan replays yes. The team then reconvene with one another and Ethan gives them all their missions, Brandt decides not to take the mission because he feels responsible for the death of Ethan's wife Julia. Ethan tells Brandt that Julia's death was staged and that he did this to protect her because while he is doing this he knows that she will not be safe any other way. And he explains that it was pretext to part of the mission to infiltrate the Russian prison and get close to Bogdan (who in turn is an IMF source). Brandt accepts his mission and the two men part, we see Ethan looking at Julia from afar and then we see Julia and Ethan's eyes meet just before he walks off on his next mission.
I really enjoyed this movie it was action, had emotion when the required and also a little comedy as well. Tom is at the top of his game and it is evident in MI4. He is a power house for a reason, because he can deliver. What a way to end 2011 with a block buster like MI4 it is a must see and will be a must by when it hit dvd's (which is a few months away).
Paramount
Driector: Brad Bird
Writers: Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec
Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton
Running time: 133 minutes
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