by Movie Dude | ARCHIVES

You’ve seen it a hundred times, in any thriller that finds the hero speeding to the rescue in a fast car or on the edge of a building’s rooftop. The camera moves up and tilts downward, in a smooth unbroken shot, so that we can all know that the actor is really standing there. But there’s no way that I was ready for the extraordinary sequence in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol where Tom Cruise makes his way across the surface of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — the world’s tallest skyscraper — while clinging to the building’s glass panels with a pair of electrified adhesive gloves. The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization’s name.

On assignment in Budapest to intercept a courier working for a person of interest code-named “Cobalt”, IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed by assassin Sabine Moreau. Hanaway’s team leader, Jane Carter, and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn extract Ethan Hunt 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. During the mission, someone broadcasts across the IMF frequency, alerting the Russians to Hunt’s team. Although Dunn and Carter escape, a bomb destroys the Kremlin, and Russian agent Sidorov arrests Hunt, suspecting him as part of 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 his team are to take the blame for the attack, but they will be allowed to escape from government custody so that they may track down Cobalt. Before Hunt can escape, the IMF’s secretary is killed by Russian security forces led by Sidorov, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt to find their own way out. The team identifies Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks, a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist who believes the weak must die for the strong to survive, so he plans to start a nuclear war to initiate the next stage of human evolution. Hendricks bombed the Kremlin in order to acquire a Russian nuclear launch-control device; however, he now needs the activation codes from the Budapest courier in order to launch a nuclear missile at America.

* I wont spoil the rest of this action thriller plot conclusion *

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol production total budget tipped the scales at $200,000,000 to start and complete this international movie masterpiece. The Domestic Gross of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol: $205,000,000 Worldwide Gross: $627,000,000.

MI CAST:
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, the team’s leader
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, an IMF technical field agent and part of Hunt’s team
Jeremy Renner as William Brandt, IMF Secretary’s chief analyst and former IMF field agent
Paula Patton as Jane Carter, a member of Hunt’s team
Michael Nyqvist as Kurt Hendricks, a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist and the primary antagonist.
Vladimir Mashkov as Anatoly Sidorov, a Russian intelligence operative following Hunt and his team.
Samuli Edelmann as Marius Wistrom, Hendricks’ right-hand man
Ivan Shvedoff as Leonid Lisenker, a nuclear-code expert who is forced to work with Hendricks
Anil Kapoor as Brij Nath, a rich Indian businessman
Léa Seydoux as Sabine Moreau, a French assassin for hire
Josh Holloway as Trevor Hanaway, an IMF agent

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