![]() Hunt receives a tip on the location of an intact IMF equipment cache which apparently contains more goodies than Q’s engineers have manufactured in the entire Bond series to date-ranging, randomly, from inflatable prosthetic arms to an automated hotel door renumbering device, to a remote-control Mars rover lookalike capable of suspending an agent in mid-air via an electromagnetic current (provided they’re wearing the included spangly disco suit). Happily for the human race, the measure proves to be utterly toothless. President duly activates “Ghost Protocol,” disavowing the entire IMF, theoretically depriving Hunt of access to intel and, most disconcertingly, to the IMF’s arsenal of wonderfully ridiculous gadgets. To do so, he steals a nuclear launch control device from the Kremlin and sets off a bomb to cover his tracks, with the added bonus that Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Mission Force are made to take the rap. Specifically, a deranged Russian strategist (Michael Nyqvist) intends to trigger the classic Cold War scenario of mutual assured destruction by launching a nuclear strike against the United States. Apparently Paramount sensed an opportunity to fill the 007 void, because not only does Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol swap the series’ traditional May release window for Bond’s customary holiday slot, but Brad Bird’s silly, gratifyingly bombastic effort also borrows a thoroughly Bondian premise. He’s wearing a white suit.Before MGM’s bankruptcy delayed the 23rd instalment of the James Bond franchise, the world’s most famous spy was slated to return to multiplexes in the fall of 2011. The posse lends a pleasing Boy’s Ownadventure aura to the project as they zigzag across continents on the tail of a megalomaniac physicist turned doomsday merchant (Michael Nyqvist from the original The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo). But where previous instalments dangled A-listers only to kill them off one chase scene later, or left the viewer wondering if this was an entirely new car chase or merely an extension of the one that went before, Ghost Protocol is happy to make more time for people and action movie quips.Įthan Hunt is back and this time he’s hanging with the Red Hand Gang, featuring foxy intelligence op Paula Patton, Simon Pegg (who steals the picture) as the funny tech guy and Jeremy Renner as the mysterious one who you’re not really sure what his deal is. True, in Mission: Impossible 4, as they’re not calling it, a whole bunch of stuff does indeed happen. Bless.īrad Bird, the director of The Incredibles, Ratatouilleand the sublime Iron Giant, brings a cartoonish sensibility and a semblance of narrative coherence to the franchise that once defined the Whole Bunch of Stuff Happens subgenre. But the fourth and best film from the admirably erratic Mission: Impossiblefranchise sees the embattled operative hitch a ride on the friend ship, the one vessel he has neither hijacked nor blown up in previous instalments. WE’VE BECOME accustomed to seeing Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt piggybacking on fast-moving trains, clinging to the sides of getaway cars and using bomb blasts to provide enough force for a handy shortcut. ![]() ![]() Tom Cruise and his posse lighten up in the fourth Mission: Impossible, writes TARA BRADY ![]() Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson, Ving Rhames 12A cert, general release, 132 min ![]()
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