Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Brad Bird comes to live-action with sheer badassery.  This film is like a new master practicing his form, and its hard to believe that it comes from one franchise that I've really hated.  Not any more though.  Ghost Protocol stars Tom Cruise coming back as Ethan Hunt, and also stars Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and the deliciously sexy Paula Patton.

The plot is Ethan Hunt and his team are on the run after being set up for a blowing up The Kremlin.  Then they have to find a Swedish terrorist who wants to do what all evil genius villains do which is to create nuclear war. (Oh  this guy still hasn't gotten over the 80s.)   The story is very simplistic indeed.  However, simple can be good for director if he wants to visually do a lot of things.

The film exceeds with some of the greatest action set pieces I have ever seen.  One involves Tom Cruise climbing on the biggest building in the world which is intnse as hell.  Another is a foot chase and a car chase through a sandstorm.  Then one of hell of and ending showdown between cruise and the villain in a car garage while playing keepaway with a briefcase. It has one short-coming in it script, which we hardly get to know the bad guy.  However where this film exceeds where the other in the franchise has not is that comradery between the team is there. I highly reccomend this film

rating - 94%