Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

	Also Known As: M:I4
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)
	Actors: Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Mission Impossible 1-3), Jeremy Renner (The Avengers, The Hurt Locker), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek), Paula Patton (Deja Vu)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 10.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Ethan Hunt will have to gather a team in order to save the world once more, but this time they are alone as their agency has been dismanteled, undoubtedly a sinister plot from the bad guy.
Review: So what do we have? The fourth episode of a franchise driven by the mega-star Tom Cruise. A couple of trendy actors (Renner & Pegg, who by the way plays the same role of comic techno-genius as in Star Trek). A classic story (a group of disavowed agents preventing a nuclear war). All of this orchestrated by the successful director of Pixar animation films (including my favorite: The Incredibles), here working on his first live movie. The result is  very good, and for me the best movie of the franchise. The succession of action scenes at different locations around the world reminds me of Quantum of Solace, but I found it much more justified than in the James Bond movie. I also found all the ingredients that I like in the Mission Impossible movies: exotic settings, high-tech equipement and bigger-than-life threats. I loved in particular the part of the movie taking place in Dubai, where the actors are at their best, and their characters have to play an intricate game on two levels of the Burj Kalifa, the tallest building in the world! The past of Brad Bird in the animation domain is noticeable during the action scenes perfectly choregraphed, and I loved the jazzy touch he brought to the Mission Impossible theme that sounds now very close to the one of The Incredibles (not surprisingly the composer Michael Giacchino is the same on both movies). The image quality is impeccable on the Blu-ray and the aerial views are breath-taking.
Rating: 8 /10