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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 199
Fresh: 186 | Rotten: 13

Stylish, fast-paced, and loaded with gripping set pieces, the fourth Mission: Impossible is big-budget popcorn entertainment that really works.

97

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 1

Stylish, fast-paced, and loaded with gripping set pieces, the fourth Mission: Impossible is big-budget popcorn entertainment that really works.

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User Ratings: 102,135

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Movie Info

This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this. -- (C) Paramount

Apr 17, 2012

$209.4M

Paramount Studios

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All Critics (202) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (188) | Rotten (13) | DVD (5)

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 Source: McClatchy-Tribune News Service | Comment (1)
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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"Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun.

December 30, 2011 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comments (4)
New Yorker
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As usual with the series, the movie combines a plot line a toddler could understand with gadgets that would baffle an engineering Ph.D.

December 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (15)
Chicago Reader
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I'm thinking it, so I might as well say it: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is no Fast Five.

December 19, 2011 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comments (160)
TIME Magazine
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...it's pretty much state-of-the-art.

December 18, 2011 Full Review Source: MSN Movies | Comments (9)

[Bird's] fresh touch gives breathless energy, tremendous excitement and, above all, humor to what could have been a wearying genre exercise.

December 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comments (5)
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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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 Source: CNNRadio | Comment
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 Source: Big Hollywood | Comment
Big Hollywood

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

May 8, 2012 Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm | Comment
LarsenOnFilm

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

April 30, 2012 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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 Source: Movie Talk | Comment

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 Comment
Projection Booth

The fun Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol could've been better, but the Blu-ray is outstanding.

April 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

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

April 1, 2012 Full Review Source: IGN DVD | Comment
IGN DVD

"...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)

March 30, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

...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 Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

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

February 3, 2012 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Movies.com

... a good-size barrel of fun.

January 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

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

January 14, 2012 Full Review Source: Mark Leeper's Reviews | Comments (4)
Mark Leeper's Reviews

Cruises on the WOW! factor.

January 9, 2012 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Comment
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

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.

January 8, 2012 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

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.

January 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Absolutely the best in a series that I found mediocre until now. Brad Bird by far did the best job among the admittedly good list of directors up until this point (Brian DePalma, John Woo, and J.J. Abrams). The previous three movies either had the problem of too convoluted of a plot to make sense, or too much action

December 13, 2011
jlewis07

Super Reviewer

Ethan Hunt: If the Secretary wanted me out of there, it must be pretty bad out here. "No Plan. No Backup. No Choice."I haven't seen the previous three installments in the Mission Impossible series in some time, but I would argue from memory that this could possibly be the best of the bunch. Ghost Protocol is a fun and

December 24, 2011
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Melvin White

Super Reviewer

    1. Jane Carter: Where's Ethan?
    2. Benji Dunn: [points up]
    3. Jane Carter: You've got to be kidding me..
    – Submitted by Jalen Everett C (7 days ago)
    1. Jane Carter: This was not a rescue mission?!
    2. Ethan Hunt: Let me put to you like this. If the secretary wanted me out of there, then things are really bad out here.
    – Submitted by Ram K (22 days ago)
    1. Jane Carter: Where's Ethan?
    – Submitted by Ram K (22 days ago)
    1. William Brandt: What about me?
    2. Benji Dunn: You're the helper.
    3. William Brandt: Helper umm...
    – Submitted by Mark U (27 days ago)
    1. Brandt: YOU'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!
    2. Ethan Hunt: You're not helping!
    – Submitted by Diego L (36 days ago)

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