Review of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) by Midlands M — 19 Oct 2013

Cruise and co seemed to be on to a winner with this fourth outing of the MI franchise. However, with the standard launch-codes-gone-missing-plot and some par-for-the-course CGI explosions, I am genuinely surprised with the amount of praise this film has got.

Cruise, as always, is a sure-fire action star (you have got to love his running and he does it in spades here) but he is teamed with anonymous Hollywood girl-nobody (Paula 'who is she?' Patton) and despite the terrific Burj Khalifa hijinks, this is just a tiny cut above any other standard Hollywood actionner.

Certainly no worse than the others, although better than 2 in my opinion, Brad Bird shows that he can handle real-life movies away from Pixar but I just wished he had a better film (and definitely script) to work with.

If you choose to accept it, I'd give this a 7/10 Midlands Movies Mike.