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

Did You Know?

Trivia

During production, Tom Cruise did the majority of his own stunts, including the skyscraper sequence(s), to show the audience it was actually him. This would allow director Brad Bird to have more capabilities with camera angles, and not having to hide the fact that it is a stuntman doing the stunts.

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Goofs

(at around 1h 1 min) When Ethan is escaping the server room by running down the front of the Burj Khalifa he is using a technique called "aussie rappelling". In order to do this the belay device the rope passes through must be positioned at the back of the harness and not on the side as shown in the film. If it was attached this way you would end up going down the building side first and not face first.

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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 PWN: Our Mission Impossibles: PWN #4 (2015)

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Soundtracks

Ain't That a Kick in the Head
Written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
Performed by Dean Martin
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

User Reviews

Excellent action movie.

The movie presents a story that is absurd. Nevertheless, it is entertaining. The movie takes the players to many different parts of the world. How they get to these places the movie does not explain. At each place people are on the run, traps are being set, communications are tense, as the good guys and bad guys try to outwit the other. The movie is devoid of any overt political content, concentrating its attention on telling the story. Tom Cruise delivers an energetic performance that carries the movie. He is in almost every scene. The movie is never dull. For fans of action movies, this movie will not disappoint.

Details

Official Sites:

Paramount [France] Paramount [United States]

Country:

USA

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

Gross USA:

$209,397,903

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$694,713,380

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