Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

A gloriously stupid blockbuster that’s as good as one can ask of out of a Tom Cruise joint outside of the SF genre. The villain is basically Kefka in the modern world, people climb and get thrown off a bunch of tall shit, and the action is shot with such conviction that you eventually learn to just go with the continuity errors (the sandstorm being the most obvious mistake). Nothing here breaks the mold, but these two hours fly by and leaves you eager to see a sequel, which is far more than could have been said about past Missions.

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