Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

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.

Director:

Brad Bird

Writers:

Bruce Geller (television series "Mission: Impossible"), Josh Appelbaum

Stars:

Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg

5 wins & 30 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Cruise	...	Ethan Hunt
Paula Patton	...	Jane
Simon Pegg	...	Benji
Jeremy Renner	...	Brandt
Michael Nyqvist	...	Hendricks
Vladimir Mashkov	...	Sidorov
Samuli Edelmann	...	Wistrom
Ivan Shvedoff	...	Leonid Lisenker
Anil Kapoor	...	Brij Nath
Léa Seydoux	...	Sabine Moreau
Josh Holloway	...	Hanaway
Pavel Kríz	...	Marek Stefanski
Miraj Grbic	...	Bogdan
Ilia Volok	...	The Fog
Goran Navojec	...	Burly Russian Prisoner

Storyline

In the fourth installment of the Mission Impossible series, Ethan Hunt and a new team race against time to track down Hendricks, a dangerous terrorist who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a disaster, with an explosion causing severe damage to the Kremlin and the IMF being implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to invoke Ghost Protocol, under which the IMF is disavowed, and will be offered no help or backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai, and from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

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Plot Keywords:

race against time | ethan hunt character | luther stickell character | woman murders a man | murderess | 

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Taglines:

No Plan. No Backup. No Choice.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence

Details

Official Sites:

Paramount [France] Paramount [United States]

Country:

USA United Arab Emirates Czech Republic Russia India Canada

Language:

English Russian French Arabic Swedish

Release Date:

21 December 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aries

Filming Locations:

Granville Island, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$145,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$12,785,204, 18 December 2011, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$209,397,903, 12 April 2012

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$694,713,380, 12 April 2012

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media, TC Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

132 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS Datasat Dolby Surround 7.1 Sonics-DDP IMAX 6-Track

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Twenty-five minutes of the film was shot in IMAX 70mm.

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Goofs

One of the characters is seen on several occasions using a MacBook Air. Although the character is actively working on the computer, the Apple logo on the cover of the machine is dark. In normal use of the MacBook Air, the logo would be lighted.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Russian Prisoner: [in Russian, to Burly Russian Prisoner] Hey, how did you open your cell door?

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Crazy Credits

Much like the first 'Mission: Impossible' movie, the opening credits to this film contain major plot points to the film.

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Alternate Versions

American broadcast TV replaces Ethan's response to Brandt's "Your line's too short," ("No s***!") with an alternate take ("Yeah, I know!")

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Connections

Referenced in Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Show Me Going (2018)

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Soundtracks

The Plot
Written by Lalo Schifrin

User Reviews

Mission Impossible at its best!

The first half of the movie is probably the best action movie of the last 20 years. It is intense, well shot, engaging and absolutely stunning visually. The stunts and action set in Budapest, Moscow and Dubai and are absolutely fantastic and make the movie. Unfortunately the movie slows down greatly in the second half of the movie (or is it two thirds/one third?) in Mumbai and loses itself in some common genre traps: too much explaining stuff that doesn't make sense and some fairly 'average' action. It's a small gripe, probably half explained by the fantastic beginning of the movie. The cast is the best of the series: Jeremy Renner is a good addition, Lea Seydoux is a pretty cool villain and the female lead whose name escapes me is somebody I wish I would have seen in another movie? And Cruise is Cruise, he's the man in this saga. A great movie overall, well done Brad Bird!