Fresh
"Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun.
David Denby, New Yorker
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
No plan. No backup. No choice.
2011 · 2h 13m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Directed by
Brad Bird
Overview
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As usual with the series, the movie combines a plot line a toddler could understand with gadgets that would baffle an engineering Ph.D.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten
I'm thinking it, so I might as well say it: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is no Fast Five.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh
...it's pretty much state-of-the-art.
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies
Fresh
[Bird's] fresh touch gives breathless energy, tremendous excitement and, above all, humor to what could have been a wearying genre exercise.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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