Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Reviews

Cruises on the WOW! factor.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Director Brad Bird juices and gooses the whole affair with edge and excitement, new energy, humor and heartbeat, and a terrific feel for big, bold, audaciously daring sequences that beg for the biggest screen available.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Great stunts and not a dull moment,

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol could very well be the series' best installment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

It has a few very good ideas, and then, the rest of it is totally lackluster.

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Watching Tom leap from a hospital window on to a passing truck, I couldn't help but worry: Tom, those knees won't last forever.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Succeeds in dishing up exactly what you would expect: State of the arts stunts, non-stop action, and a series of clearly laid-out heists and chases that go awry in all kinds of creative ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Bird manages the escalations from the preposterous through the more preposterous to the most preposterous with skill and wit...

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...great cinematic entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Better than the tower climb is the scene in which Hunt infiltrates the Kremlin with, essentially, a high-tech magic trick; the playfulness of the effect demonstrates the usefulness of Bird's background in the astonish-the-audience culture of animation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

"Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun.

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So exciting you have to remind yourself to breathe.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Ghost pulls off the impossible.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5

Film number four has found its optimum screen display, its best director for the job and its sense of humour while increasing the gadgets and death-defying stunts.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Something goes wrong and the entire Kremlin blows up. 'The wattage of my smile has overpowered the antiquated Russian electrical grid,' explained Tom.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

The cinematography is rewarding enough for a travelogue. The good guy vs. the world with a hateful bad guy is involving. This is another film where you should just leave your brain at home, relax, and enjoy it.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Welcome to the post-Pixar action movie.

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Best line of 2011 delivered by Jeremy Renner: "That's it. Next time I get to seduce the rich guy." Why is MI4 so terrific? I screamed out in the theater: "The pants are gonna rip!"

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