Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol
When an apparent terrorist bomb destroys part of the Kremlin, the blame falls on Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Missions Force, invoking the “Ghost Protocol”—that long-threatened disavowal “if you or any of your agents are killed or captured.” Now, with few resources and only a skeleton crew (Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner) Hunt must get to the bottom of who really bombed the Kremlin, and why. Director Brad Bird and writers Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec deliver the best installment in the franchise since Paramount reworked Bruce Geller’s old TV series into a James Bond-style vehicle for Cruise. The plot is amusingly globe-trotting (Moscow to Dubai to India in the blink of an eye), the action excitingly preposterous, the pace relentless. All in all, a good-size barrel of fun.
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