Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Yep, I saw two movies in the theatre this weekend.  That won't happen again for a long long time.  I heard great things about this movie for the past few weeks and was even more excited than when it first came out.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is the fourth in the series starring Tom Cruise.  The movie starts with the entire Impossible Mission Force (IMF) being disavowed and Hunt and his team being on the run.  The story takes you from location to location following Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team.  The story is very good at keeping you involved throughout and does a nice job keeping things humorous as well.  The action sequences are excellent, particularly the one while Hunt is scaling a building.

The cast is better in this one than it has been since the first in the series.  It includes Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, and Simon Pegg as the IMF team.  Simon Pegg really adds something to these movies that was sorely missed before his addition in MI:3.  Michael Nyqvist, of the Swedish version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, plays the main antagonist of the film and does an admirable job.  I will say I missed some of the cast from the previous films and wished they had included them more in this one.  For all you Lost fans out there, Josh Holloway (Sawyer) makes an appearance at the beginning of Ghost Protocol.

This movie is not without it's flaws though.  There is a sandstorm scene which I understand some people enjoyed, I wasn't a fan.  One of the effects of a sandstorm is that you can't see anything, well as you might imagine this is a problem for someone trying to follow a movie.  I don't blame them for trying but please don't do that again.  Also, I like Jeremy Renner but this wasn't his best acting job and I hope they don't try to bring him back for another one.  For whatever reason he just doesn't seem to fit in this movie.  Oh yea, nit picking, there is a scene with Tom Cruise in "skinny jeans",  it's painful to see a grown man wearing that!

Overall, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is a very good movie which I would recommend checking out.  The action scenes are fantastic, the locations are gorgeous, and it's just a fun movie.