Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
A summer movie released in winter? Well, I have no answer for that mystery, but what I can answer is whether or not you should see this movie.
In Russia, we find that Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been arrested. Although, his team of Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) come to break him out. Once Benji gets him out of his sell, Ethan rescues a fellow prisoner and heads towards the checkpoint where he finds Jane. After all of this, they get in their van where they put the prisoner that Ethan rescued into another van. Afterwards, Jane informs Ethan of a fellow agent that went down while trying to get the package. The person that took that agent down was Sabine Moreau (Lea Seydoux). The package contained launch codes for Russian nuclear missiles. So now it's up to our heroes to get those codes and stop whoever Sabine is working for.
Alright, before I even get started with what I liked and didn't like, I'd just like to say that this was the first Mission Impossible movie I saw. I haven't seen the first 3 movies yet, so this entire review is from the perspective of a newcomer to the franchise. With that stated, there's a lot of amazing things about this movie. The main thing that really stuck out to me was all the different forms of technology they used. I'm not entirely sure if even half of this stuff is real and just used for military operations or just made up by the cast and crew of the movie. It's all really impressive. Take, for example, this sheet that they use just to sneak up in front of a guard. They could of used something cliche like turning them invisible, but instead, this sheet doesn't do that. Instead, it copies the room that's behind the sheet and analyzes the angle that whoever in front of it is staring at and adjusts the image to fit that angle. Then there's these gloves that Ethan uses to climb the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building in the world. Yes, these gloves act exactly like Spider-Man's wall climbing powers, but it's still rather impressive to see these things in action. Then there's the action sequences, which there's a lot of. This isn't a terrible thing because each one is amazingly fun to watch. What makes them even better is when it appears to be ending, something happens that keeps it going. It just keeps being awesome. As for Tom Cruise and the others, their acting is hands down flawless. Even the background characters do an amazing job here.
So let's get to the not so good things. Surprisingly, although I'm just a newcomer to the series, there's not a lot wrong here. Yes, there are some parts that new fans may question, but that's not the movie's fault necessarily since there's 3 movies before this that, hopefully, fill in the gaps. There's also a subplot about Ethan being confused for a terrorist that the movie seems to just forget and then randomly remember every now and then. It's really annoying and isn't necessary.
So would I recommend this movie, especially to newcomers? Of course. It's a fun and enjoyable movie for everyone. It's not too confusing for newcomers and it's amazing for fans.
In Russia, we find that Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been arrested. Although, his team of Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) come to break him out. Once Benji gets him out of his sell, Ethan rescues a fellow prisoner and heads towards the checkpoint where he finds Jane. After all of this, they get in their van where they put the prisoner that Ethan rescued into another van. Afterwards, Jane informs Ethan of a fellow agent that went down while trying to get the package. The person that took that agent down was Sabine Moreau (Lea Seydoux). The package contained launch codes for Russian nuclear missiles. So now it's up to our heroes to get those codes and stop whoever Sabine is working for.
Alright, before I even get started with what I liked and didn't like, I'd just like to say that this was the first Mission Impossible movie I saw. I haven't seen the first 3 movies yet, so this entire review is from the perspective of a newcomer to the franchise. With that stated, there's a lot of amazing things about this movie. The main thing that really stuck out to me was all the different forms of technology they used. I'm not entirely sure if even half of this stuff is real and just used for military operations or just made up by the cast and crew of the movie. It's all really impressive. Take, for example, this sheet that they use just to sneak up in front of a guard. They could of used something cliche like turning them invisible, but instead, this sheet doesn't do that. Instead, it copies the room that's behind the sheet and analyzes the angle that whoever in front of it is staring at and adjusts the image to fit that angle. Then there's these gloves that Ethan uses to climb the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building in the world. Yes, these gloves act exactly like Spider-Man's wall climbing powers, but it's still rather impressive to see these things in action. Then there's the action sequences, which there's a lot of. This isn't a terrible thing because each one is amazingly fun to watch. What makes them even better is when it appears to be ending, something happens that keeps it going. It just keeps being awesome. As for Tom Cruise and the others, their acting is hands down flawless. Even the background characters do an amazing job here.
So let's get to the not so good things. Surprisingly, although I'm just a newcomer to the series, there's not a lot wrong here. Yes, there are some parts that new fans may question, but that's not the movie's fault necessarily since there's 3 movies before this that, hopefully, fill in the gaps. There's also a subplot about Ethan being confused for a terrorist that the movie seems to just forget and then randomly remember every now and then. It's really annoying and isn't necessary.
So would I recommend this movie, especially to newcomers? Of course. It's a fun and enjoyable movie for everyone. It's not too confusing for newcomers and it's amazing for fans.