Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)

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Finally an action movie that recaptures the fun and adventure of old.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

Brad Bird takes the series up a notch with enjoyable character dynamics and a straightforward but still intriguing story featuring plenty of unique action set pieces.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is the kind of lean, mean, fearless action movie that chugs along at such a high tempo, you realise when leaving the cinema that you're actually running.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

"Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" is the best film in the series since the original. It's a fast-paced thrillride that'll keep you thoroughly engaged as it hops from one amazing sequence to the next.

September 18, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol may be nothing ground-breaking but it is the best example of how to make a skillfully made action film that works because of all the right elements that are blended together to create pure adrenaline bliss.

September 17, 2012 Full Review

Benjo Colautti

We Got This Covered

Action films tend to get repetitive, especially sequels. It's refreshing to find an excellent, original and engaging one.

September 15, 2012 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

It leaves X-Men: First Class, Captain America, and the rest of 2011′s glorified Saturday morning cartoons in its dust. I want to take this ride again.

June 15, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jeffrey Overstreet

Filmwell

The action scenes more than make it worth watching, preferably in IMAX to really take in that spectacular skyscraper scene in its full glory.

May 22, 2012 Full Review

Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

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.

May 16, 2012 Full Review

Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

Pixar vet Brad Bird directs the best Mission: Impossible yet. See it on the biggest screen possible for maximum impact.

May 16, 2012 Full Review

Christian Toto

Big Hollywood

...an opening prison escape appears to be modeled after a Busby Berkeley musical number, of all things.

May 8, 2012 Full Review

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

A smoothly rhythmed piece of work, moving at a pace sufficient to bypass inconvenient questions.

April 30, 2012 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

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.

April 30, 2012 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

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.

April 20, 2012

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

A knockout, tense action picture that proves there's plenty more life left in the Mission: Impossible franchise.

April 1, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

...one of the best action adventures of the year if you're willing to suspend your disbelief for most of the picture.

March 30, 2012 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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.

March 23, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Brad Bird's Mission made me feel like a kid again.

February 3, 2012 Full Review | Comments (3)

Sean O'Connell

Movies.com

... a good-size barrel of fun.

January 20, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

still does not have the hang of what made the TV show so good.

January 14, 2012 Full Review | Comments (6)

Mark R. Leeper

Mark Leeper's Reviews

• 1. William Brandt: Your line's not long enough!
  2. Ethan Hunt: No shit!
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• 1. Brji Nath: Are you impressed yet?
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• 1. Ethan Hunt: Saturn, take the leap.
  2. William Brandt: [exhales deeply] Ok. [clears throat] Jumping. Jumping now. Jump now?
  3. Ethan Hunt: Yes, commit, jump.
  4. William Brandt: Jump.
  5. Ethan Hunt: Jump.
  6. Benji Dunn: And I catch you.
  7. Ethan Hunt: Now.
  8. William Brandt: So, uh, you're sure about this suit, right, Benji?
  9. Benji Dunn: Pretty sure.
  10. William Brandt: [laughs sarcastically] Now you're pretty sure?
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• 1. Ethan Hunt: Come check.
  2. William Brandt: Saturn's got your five-by-five, Jupiter.
  3. Benji Dunn: This is Pluto. I have arrived at the party.
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• 1. Benji Dunn: The science is sound, all right? I'd be more worried about the heat.
  2. William Brandt: And then there's that. What heat?
  3. Benji Dunn: [laughing] Well, it's like any computer, isn't it? If you switch off the fan, it's gonna get really hot.
  4. William Brandt: [laughing sarcastically] Of course.
  5. Benji Dunn: Relatively, you know.
  6. William Brandt: Of course it will. So I'm jumping into, uh, an oven, essentially.
  7. Benji Dunn: Yeah, essentially. But, um, I'll catch you.
  8. William Brandt: [unconvinced] Great.
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• 1. William Brandt: OK, yeah, but you, um, just breezed over something I think is really important. The computer array part, where I just... jump?
  2. Benji Dunn: And I catch you.
  3. William Brandt: Yeah
  4. Benji Dunn: I don't... Why is that so hard to grasp?
  5. William Brandt: Well, yeah, why? It's a 25 foot drop. And we're using magnets.
  6. Benji Dunn: [grinning] Yeah.
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