Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, and Simon Pegg
Directed by: Brad Bird
SC=4 V=5 C=4
Grade: A++
I have always loved the Mission: Impossible movies. The first movie is strictly an espionage movie, the second is just bad, and the third is more of an action movie. This one is much more like the third. Although I always like Tom Cruise and Ethan Hunt, the addition of Jeremy Renner as Brandt makes the movie even more exciting. The movie starts with Benji (Pegg) breaking Ethan Hunt (Cruise) out of jail in Russia. The other member of the team, Jane (Paula Patton), informs Hunt that she and Benji's original partner, Hanaway (Josh Holloway), was killed during a seemingly routine op by an assassin. This same assassin plans to sell the documents that she stole to an unstable terrorist. Hunt's team is given the mission (should they choose to accept it) to invade the Kremlin and find the file on this terrorist. But, during their escape, the Kremlin is blown up, which is blamed on not only Hunt but the entire IMF. The secretary of defense picks up Hunt and tells him that the president has initiated Ghost Protocol and the IMF has been disavowed. After their car is hit, Hunt narrowly escapes with the secretary's chief analyst, Brandt (Renner). As they try to get to the assassin before she sells the documents, it becomes clear that there is more to Brandt than meets the eye. Overall, great movie, my favorite M:I so far. I'm excited to see what will happen with Brandt if they make more movies.
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