{"id":13477,"date":"2011-12-14T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/mission-impossible-4-review-its-not-deep-but-the-stunts-are-pretty-awesome\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:55:17","slug":"mission-impossible-4-review-its-not-deep-but-the-stunts-are-pretty-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/14\/mission-impossible-4-review-its-not-deep-but-the-stunts-are-pretty-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Impossible 4 review: It&#8217;s not deep but the stunts are pretty awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last updated at 2:55 PM on 14th December 2011<\/p>\n<p><span><span>Verdict: The best one yet<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Mission Impossible 4: It's not deep or meaningful... but the stunts are pretty awesome\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-12-14T14:55+0000\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6690rating_showbiz_4.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"4 Star Rating\" title=\"4 out of 5\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Brad Bird made his name with two brilliant animated films, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Mission Impossible 4 is his first live-action film, and it confirms that he\u00a0 is a first-rate director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are three sequences here \u2013 a break from a Russian prison, a hazardous climb up the tallest building in the world in Dubai, and a climactic fight in an automated multi-storey car park in Mumbai \u2013 that rank among the best not just of the year, but of all time.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/14\/article-0-0F1F7D2200000578-151_468x343.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"343\" alt=\"It's not deep or meaningful: But Tom Cruise's latest movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is packed with some awesome stunts\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not deep or meaningful: But Tom Cruise&#8217;s latest movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is packed with some awesome stunts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>It\u2019s these that make<br \/>\nMission Impossible: Ghost Protocol superior to the other films in this<br \/>\nseries, and very much worth the price of admission. See it, if you can,<br \/>\non an Imax screen, where the stunts are breath-taking.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The story, regrettably, is a routine<br \/>\naffair that never departs from formula. Yet another madman is intent on<br \/>\nbringing about a world war. He\u2019s called Kurt Hendricks, and is played<br \/>\nuninterestingly by Michael Nykvist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Apparently,<br \/>\nthis nutter\u2019s belief is that only when the world has succumbed to<br \/>\nnuclear annihilation will there be lasting peace. It\u2019s a miracle this<br \/>\nguy can get anyone to be his homicidal henchmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/14\/article-0-0F1F7E1E00000578-372_468x340.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Action packed: Cruise's hazardous climb up the tallest building in Dubai is particularly breathtaking\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Action packed: Cruise&#8217;s hazardous climb up the tallest building in Dubai is particularly breathtaking<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Hendricks blows up the Kremlin and pins the blame on America &#8211; more specifically agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Simon Pegg and Paula Patton).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the death by explosion of their boss (Tom Wilkinson), Hunt and co know they are on their own as rogue agents though, as usual in this series, they never seem to suffer from any shortage of money or hi-tech gadgetry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Major faults remain from the first three pictures. Ethan Hunt must be the blandest, most boring action hero in modern cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The shape of the screenplay and cheesy attempts at flippant wisecracks are familiar from too many Bond films, and it\u2019s curious to see a modern film still peddling a view of Russian-American relations that dates from the Cold War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No one\u2019s going to pretend this film is deep or meaningful but, at its best, it really is pretty awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mission Impossible 4 goes on general release on Boxing Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-2074065\/Mission-Impossible-4-review-Its-deep-stunts-pretty-awesome.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Mission Impossible 4 review: It's not deep but the stunts are pretty awesome\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Impossible 4 review: It&#8217;s not deep but the stunts are pretty awesome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 2:55 PM on 14th December 2011 Verdict: The best one yet Rating: Brad Bird made his name with two brilliant animated films, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Mission Impossible 4 is his first live-action film, and it confirms that he\u00a0 is a first-rate director. There are three sequences here \u2013 a break from a Russian prison, a hazardous climb up the tallest building in the world in Dubai, and a climactic fight in an automated multi-storey car park in Mumbai \u2013 that rank among the best not just of the year, but of all time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mission Impossible 4 review: It&#039;s not deep but the stunts are pretty awesome - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/14\/mission-impossible-4-review-its-not-deep-but-the-stunts-are-pretty-awesome\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mission Impossible 4 review: It&#039;s not deep but the stunts are pretty awesome - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 2:55 PM on 14th December 2011 Verdict: The best one yet Rating: Brad Bird made his name with two brilliant animated films, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. 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