MI4: Ghost Protocol
Synopsis:
This is a little complicated plot whereby the movie started off in Budapest where an agent, Trevor Hanaway (Josh Holloway of Lost fame) an IMF agent was killed by an assassin for hire, Sabine Moreau while extracting a file containing nuclear launch code. Then, the movie panned to Moscow where Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) was imprisoned for unauthorized killing a group of Serbians. However, Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) managed to rescue Ethan from the prison so that Ethan can help to extract the stolen files as well as identifying the mastermind behind, named Cobalt. In order to do that, Ethan and his gang needs to infiltrate Moscow Kremlin archives but during their daring mission, they discovered that the files were stolen earlier and then the Kremlin was bombed. The Russian accuses the US for the provoked action as they thought that Ethan under the orders of US planted the bombs. Due to the complexity of the issue, the US president then activates "Ghost Protocol", an operation to disavow IMF agency and place the blame on Ethan and his gang but ensure that they continue to engage in tracking down Cobalt. While narrowly escaping from Russian attack that killed IMF secretary, Ethan together with intelligence analyst, William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) managed to identify Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist of The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo) and also discover that he is the mastermind behind the bombing in order to acquire the nuclear launch device.
Hendricks needs the nuclear activation code in order to activate the nuclear launch towards US soil and trigger a world war between Russia and US. Ethan discover that the exchange of the codes between Sabine Moreau and Hendricks will be in Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Ethan the the gang then devise a plan to extract the codes but failed with Hendricks having both the codes and activation devices. Ethan was then informed that Hendricks will be in Mumbai to use an old satellite own by Brij Nath (Anil Kapoor) to transmit the order to fire the missile. During that mission, Hendricks kill himself in order to ensure the launch of the nuclear missile will not be deactivate but Ethan managed to disarm the missile when Nath reveal the satellite override code to Carter while Dunn reconfigure the server in order for Hunt to send the disarmed codes back to the satellite.
Review:
MI3 was considered as one of the best non-stop action film in the franchise to me so when Ghost Protocol came up, i wasn't so keen due to the fact that it might have many over-acting of Tom Cruise as in his many previous movie. But i have a feeling that Tom Cruise knows about it especially when many of his recent movies bomb at the box-office such as Knight & Day (but i felt it was quite a funny film). So this film does not involve him overrated or over-acting and it keeps to the minimal with less dialogue but focuses on action action and non-stop action. The background soundtrack was also kept to the minimal to make the film more realistic. The comedic level was also kept to the minimal with quick one liner punch joke. My only dissatisfaction is how can Ethan who is suppose to be more youthful and more stronger physically keeps getting his ass beaten by Kurt Hendricks during their fight scene. It doesn't make sense at all but luckily other action scenes makes up for the rest of the film. So, was MI4 better than MI3. My answer is still no but its a commendable action film
Verdict:
I give this film a 3.5 star out of 5
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