Original Language | en |
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Languages Spoken | English, Russian, French, Arabic, Swedish |
Release Date | December 7, 2011 |
Runtime | 133 minutes |
Rating | 7.1 |
Country | United States of America |
Genres | Action, Thriller, Adventure |
Director | Brad Bird |
Writers | Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec |
Producer | J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Bryan Burk, Dana Goldberg, Paul Schwake, David Ellison, Jeffrey Chernov |
Editor | Paul Hirsch |
Music | Michael Giacchino |
Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
Budget | 145000000 |
Revenue | 694713380 |
Actor Name | Character Name |
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Tom Cruise | Ethan Hunt |
Paula Patton | Jane |
Simon Pegg | Benji |
Jeremy Renner | Brandt |
Michael Nyqvist | Hendricks |
Vladimir Mashkov | Sidorov |
Samuli Edelmann | Wistrom |
Ivan Shvedoff | Leonid Lisenker |
Anil Kapoor | Brij Nath |
Léa Seydoux | Sabine Moreau |
Josh Holloway | Hanaway |
Pavel Kříž | Marek Stefanski |
Miraj Grbić | Bogdan |
Ilia Volok | The Fog |
Goran Navojec | Burly Russian Prisoner |
Pavel Bezděk | Prison Guard |
Ladislav Beran | Control Room Guard |
Jan Filipenský | Control Room Guard |
Jiří Kraus | Control Room Guard |
Ales Putik | Control Room Guard |
Tomáš Valík | Control Room Guard |
Pavel Cajzl | Prisoner |
Randy Hall | Prisoner |
Vitaly Kravchenko | Scraggy Tooth |
Andrej Bestchastny | Kremlin Senate Building Desk Guard |
Mike Dopud | Kremlin Subcellar Hallway Guard |
Martin Hub | Kremlin Gate Security Guard |
Ivo Novák | Russian Agent |
Anastasiya Novikova | Russian Hospital Nurse |
Marek Dobeš | Russian News Anchor |
Claudia Vašeková | Russian News Anchor |
Brian Caspe | British News Anchor |
Petra Lustigová | Anna Lisenker |
Daniel Clarke | Alex Lisenker |
April Stewart | Swedish Translator (voice) |
Gina Hirsch | IMF Operator |
Ghaleb El Saadi | Dock Worker |
Andreas Wisniewski | The Fog's Contact |
Mustafa Alyassri | Doctor Setting Sidorov's Nose |
Michael Rys | Russian Sub Captain |
Dmitry Chepovetsky | Russian Sub Ensign |
Dawn Chubai | San Francisco News Anchor |
Nicola Anderson | Julia's Friend |
Keith Dallas | Julia's Friend |
Tammy Hui | Julia's Friend |
David Stuart | Julia's Friend |
Sabrina Morris | Julia's Friend |
Michelle Monaghan | Julia Meade-Hunt (uncredited) |
Ving Rhames | Luther Stickell (uncredited) |
Tom Wilkinson | IMF Secretary (uncredited) |
Jessica Belkin | Girl on the Red Square (voice) (uncredited) |
Paul Lazenby | Kremlin Guard (uncredited) |
Stephen Lobo | SINGH Security Guard (uncredited) |
Roger Narayan | Engineer, Various (uncredited) |
Ali Olomi | Sheikh (uncredited) |
Mihály Szabados | Conductor (uncredited) |
Darren Shahlavi | Sabine Moreau's Bodyguard (uncredited) |
Teddy Newton | Mission Brief (voice) (uncredited) |
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.
Perhaps what I'm missing with _Mission: Impossible_ is the big screen experience. Because I'm just not really feeling the love with this franchise. 15 years down the road since the first film and it still all feels a little unfocussed and silly to me, despite how beloved I know it is.
That all said, and though the villain here is certainly no Phillip Seymour-Hoffman of _M:I:III_, I still felt this was the strongest entry of the franchise so far. They even finally figured out that women can be used for more than just a damsel-in-distress, throwaway-set-piece or eye-candy. They haven't moved terribly far past that point, but at least they're changing it up a little. This fourth entry also adds a little levity, something a series that has always been a little dumb, is well served by.
_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
This is almost as good as the first outing - almost 20 years ago - for "Ethan" (Tom Cruise) and he finds himself on the wrong end of an evaluation from the US Government - led by "Hunley" (Alec Baldwin) that wants to dissolve the IMF. He and "Luther" (VIng Rhames), meantime, are on the trail of the "Syndicate" - a criminal organisation that poses a real threat to the peace and security of the nation and to his organisation. Co-opting "Benji" (Simon Pegg) and "Brandt" (Jeremy Renner) they soon come across the enigmatic "Ilsa" (Rebecca Ferguson) who wants to help out, but why? What now ensues is a tautly directed thriller with plenty of action that takes us all around Morocco and Europe before quite a gripping conclusion to the intrigue leaves everyone unsure who they can trust. Christopher McQuarrie seems to have decided to go back to the television series for reference here, the teamwork (even from the usually terrible Pegg) and the plot develop more plausibly and excitingly; it has a grittier and more substantial story to it, and even if Cruise looks a little unkempt from time to time, that narrative is just better - it actually is a thriller rather than just another piece of star-led boisterous entertainment. Like most films that depict the principle of US Senate oversight, it continues to poke fun at the (in)competencies of that body to even make a proper cup of coffee; there is some humour in the dialogue and it's put the franchise very much back on track.
Rating Analysis for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol:
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Total Votes: 10,149
Rating Breakdown:
- Popularity Score: 37.3
- Adult Content: No
- Budget to Revenue Ratio: 479.1%