Movie Review – Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol

Is not too much if I said, this is the most anticipated movie that has been waited by all Tom Cruises’ die-hard-fan and Mission Impossible hard-fans precisely. The fourth movie from Mission Impossible series was release in silver screen in Malaysia on 15^th December 2011 ago. MyBoo and I definitely will not take our chance not to be in our favourite cinema for the screening.

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol is a story of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) as an agent of IMF. On assignment in Budapest to intercept a courier working for a person of interest code-named "Cobalt", IMF agent Trevor Hanaway (Josh Holloway) is killed by an assassin named Moreau (Lea Seydoux). Hanaway's team leader, Jane Carter (Paula Patton), and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) extract Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Hunt's source Bogdan from a Moscow prison. Hunt is recruited to lead Carter and Dunn to infiltrate the secret Moscow Kremlin archives and locate files identifying Cobalt. Halfways through the mission, someone broadcasts across the IMF frequency, alerting the Russians to Hunt's team. Although Hunt, Dunn and Carter escape, a bomb destroys the Kremlin and Russian agent Sidirov (Vladimir Mashkov) accuses Hunt of masterminding the attack.

The IMF extracts Hunt from Moscow. The Russians have called the attack an undeclared act of war and the US president activates "Ghost Protocol", a black operation contingency that disavows the entire IMF. Hunt and team are to take the blame for the attack, but will be allowed to escape from government custody so that they may operate to track down Cobalt. Before Hunt can escape, the IMF's secretary is killed by Russian security forces led by Sidirov, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) to find their own way out. The team identifies Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist who believes the weak must die for the strong to survive, and so plans to start a nuclear war to start the next stage of human evolution. Hendricks bombed the Kremlin and acquired a Russian nuclear launch-control device, and now needs its codes from the Budapest courier in order to launch a nuclear missile at America.

The exchange between Moreau and Hendricks' right-hand man, Wistrom (Samuli Edelmann), is due to take place at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. There, Hunt's team-members separately convince Moreau and Wistrom that they have made the exchange with one another. However, Moreau identifies Brandt as an agent. While Hunt chases Wistrom (only to realize Wistrom is actually Hendricks in disguise as Hendricks escapes with the codes) Carter detains Moreau. Moreau attempts to kill the inexperienced Dunn, and Carter throws her out a window to her death (it is 100^th floor of Burj Khalifa). Brandt accuses Carter of compromising the mission for revenge against Moreau, but Hunt accuses Brandt of keeping secrets from them, as he has displayed fighting skills atypical of an analyst. While Hunt seeks more information from Bogdan, Brandt admits he was assigned as security detail to Hunt and his wife Julia while on assignment. Julia was killed by a Serbian hit squad, prompting Ethan to pursue and kill them before he was caught by the Russians and sent to prison.

From Dubai, their journey in tracking Hendricks brings them to Mumbai, India. Hendricks facilitated the sale of a defunct Soviet military satellite to Indian telecommunications entrepreneur Brij Nath (Anil Kapoor), which could be used to transmit the order to fire a missile. While Brandt and Dunn infiltrate the server room to take the satellite offline, Carter gets Nath to reveal the satellite override code. But Hendricks has anticipated Hunt's plan and takes Nath's servers offline before sending a signal from a television broadcasting tower to a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific. The submarine fires on San Francisco. Hunt goes after Hendricks and the launch device while the rest of the team attempt to bring the broadcast station back online. Hunt and Hendricks fight over the launch-control device before Hendricks jumps to his death with it to ensure the launch. Dunn kills Wistrom, allowing Brandt to restore power to the station and enabling Hunt to deactivate the missile before it can detonate. He is confronted by Sidirov, who sees that he has stopped the missile, proving that the IMF is innocent in the Kremlin bombing.

Say needed more. This movie is full of action, mendebarkan… you can feel the excitement. Go and watch it! Last when we walked out from the cinema, I said ‘Tom Cruise looked handsome even he’s wearing goggle’… hahahaha.. till then~~