Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Tom Cruise has lost it)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves a grinding torture for 2 hours in your favourite movie hall.
                                                 -Agent Ethan Hunt

Tom Cruise has completely lost it. He makes it a Mission Impossible for us to watch the worst of the installments of the MI-series. The action sequences have been conceptualized to the minutest of the detail, beautifully shot and adeptly edited to make you sit at the edge of your seat. As the action sequences push you to the edge of the seat, the lame dialogues and forced sub plots force you to walk away from the dragging storyline.

Action sequence start from the rooftop of a building in Budapest and moves on to the prison in Moscow and rides on the windows of the world's tallest building in Dubai before ending in a parking lot supposedly located in India. Tom Cruise has forgotten everything from choosing the right director (John Woo was the best in MI-2), to the right co-producer (Paula Wagner) to the right sidekicks (Ving Rhames appears only in the end for less than 2 minutes) except the best action team.

Brad Bird is the worst choice as the director. His animation movies Ratatouile and Incredibles are one of my favourite movies, but his first action venture doesnot live upto the hype created. The next worst choice is Anil Kapoor as the Billionaire from Mumbai. Even the gloves used to climb the world's tallest building seems to have been picked from the china market.

Mr.Hunt, Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves in getting John Woo back as the Director, Paula Wagner as the Co-Producer and Ving Rhames as the sidekick.  And Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires, a villain. So, choose your villain wisely next time.

Watching MI-4 was Mission Impossible for me. The movie poster says, No Plan, No Backup, No Choice. Well you have  a choice, stay back home, rent MI-2 dvd and enjoy the adrenaline rush.


Think About It: If Tom Cruise ends up choosing the wrong crew again for MI-5, the franchisee will self-destruct in the next 5 seconds.