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Brad 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.
"Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun.
As usual with the series, the movie combines a plot line a toddler could understand with gadgets that would baffle an engineering Ph.D.
I'm thinking it, so I might as well say it: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is no Fast Five.
...it's pretty much state-of-the-art.
[Bird's] fresh touch gives breathless energy, tremendous excitement and, above all, humor to what could have been a wearying genre exercise.
All the gizmos and technology on display in M:I 4 are probably impossible based on current science. But, wow, do you ever get the feeling that this neat stuff is very doable at some point in the future? I sure do.
Pixar vet Brad Bird directs the best Mission: Impossible yet. See it on the biggest screen possible for maximum impact.
...an opening prison escape appears to be modeled after a Busby Berkeley musical number, of all things.
A smoothly rhythmed piece of work, moving at a pace sufficient to bypass inconvenient questions.
It's Cruise's daredevil bravado that provides the film's standout episode, a sequence of hair-raising, palm-dampening, gob-smacking suspense that sees him clinging to the side of the world's tallest building.
While the script occasionally flirts with weightlessness, Bird's ecstatic camera and some brilliant casting - to say nothing of Cruise's selflessness as a stuntman - make this a tentpole sequel worth getting behind.
The fun Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol could've been better, but the Blu-ray is outstanding.
A knockout, tense action picture that proves there's plenty more life left in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
"...a first-class, slam-bang action adventure in absolute state-of-the-art picture and sound. And you don't have to apologize for enjoying it." (Blu-ray Combo edition)
...one of the best action adventures of the year if you're willing to suspend your disbelief for most of the picture.
Brad Bird's Mission made me feel like a kid again.
... a good-size barrel of fun.
still does not have the hang of what made the TV show so good.
Cruises on the WOW! factor.
Snagging Oscar-winning animation director Brad Bird to fill the director's chair proves to be an inspired choice--and, upon thought, a bit of a no-brainer.
The screenplay doesn't rely too much on gimmicks to advance the plot. Instead, the plot is also character-driven to an extent. There are interesting dynamics going on in the Mission Impossible team.
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