MI4- Ghost Protocol - movie review

If you're a lover of the precision of IMF's previous missions, you're not likely to enjoy this movie much. Because, everything goes wrong with the missions of this installment of MI - messages don't self destruct, fake IDs don't get uploaded on time, packages turn up empty, gloves don't work, masks don't get molded and of course (as they mention in the teaser) the whole IMF has been disavowed. But you still have the edge of the seat action sequences and the ever fit Tom Cruise chasing and being chased as usual. Learn how to take your car out of a parking lot from this guy.

Brad Bird, the director, not surprisingly, adds his own comic touch to the action. The director's love for humor can be evidently seen in many sequences especially through Benji 's character. But too much of anything spoils the broth and in the case of this movie it does distract the viewers from the seriousness of the missions. If there is one character that interests you with many shades it is that of Brandt played by the deserving Jeremy Renner ( The Hurt Locker fame). Paula Patton doesn't add much to the plot more than skin and kicks. Tom cruises through his role as Ethan Hunt as usual and the chemistry between him and Simon Pegg in the previous installment has been cleverly extended in this movie. And yeah, we have our own Anil Kapoor playing a very very crucial role that takes your excitement to a completely different level  !!! (pun intended). Ving Rhames does a cameo as Luther Stickell at the end of the movie.

 The real problem with this movie is it does not have a single focused mission (like the Chimera or the Rabbits foot). The normal save-the-world-from-nuclear-destruction plot reduces this to any other action movie. The other big let down was the characterization of the villain. Hendricks ( played by Michael Nyqvist) does not measure up to Owen Davian (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman). It was evident that the climax which supposedly happens in India were shot elsewhere in a set. I'm not even gonna start on the loop holes in the plot since nobody seems to be bothered about it. But if you want some adrenaline pumping action from Tom go for it.