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'''''Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol''''' is a 2011 [[action film|action]] [[spy film]], and the fourth installment in the [[Mission: Impossible (film series)|''Mission: Impossible'' series]]. It stars [[Tom Cruise]], who reprises his role of [[Impossible Missions Force|IMF]] Agent [[Ethan Hunt]], and is director [[Brad Bird]]'s first live-action film.<ref name="Director">{{cite web |url=http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/07/brad-bird-confirmed-for-mission-impossible-4/ |title=Brad Bird Confirmed for Mission: Impossible 4 |author=Peter Sciretta |date=May 7, 2010 |work= |publisher=/Film |accessdate=September 28, 2010}}</ref> ''Ghost Protocol'' was written by [[André Nemec]] and [[Josh Appelbaum]], and produced by Cruise, [[J. J. Abrams]] (director of [[Mission: Impossible III|the third film]]) and [[Bryan Burk]]. It is the first ''Mission: Impossible'' film not produced by [[Paula Wagner]], and the first of the series to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras. The film was released in [[North America]] on December 16, 2011, to positive reviews
'''''Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol''''' is a 2011 [[action film|action]] [[spy film]], and the fourth installment in the [[Mission: Impossible (film series)|''Mission: Impossible'' series]]. It stars [[Tom Cruise]], who reprises his role of [[Impossible Missions Force|IMF]] Agent [[Ethan Hunt]], and is director [[Brad Bird]]'s first live-action film.<ref name="Director">{{cite web |url=http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/07/brad-bird-confirmed-for-mission-impossible-4/ |title=Brad Bird Confirmed for Mission: Impossible 4 |author=Peter Sciretta |date=May 7, 2010 |work= |publisher=/Film |accessdate=September 28, 2010}}</ref> ''Ghost Protocol'' was written by [[André Nemec]] and [[Josh Appelbaum]], and produced by Cruise, [[J. J. Abrams]] (director of [[Mission: Impossible III|the third film]]) and [[Bryan Burk]]. It is the first ''Mission: Impossible'' film not produced by [[Paula Wagner]], and the first of the series to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras. The film was released in [[North America]] on December 16, 2011, to positive reviews.


==Plot==
==Plot==

Revision as of 22:30, 29 December 2011

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Teaser poster
Directed byBrad Bird[1]
Written byAndré Nemec[1]
Josh Appelbaum[1]
Produced byTom Cruise[1]
J. J. Abrams[1]
Bryan Burk[1]
StarringTom Cruise
Jeremy Renner
Simon Pegg
Paula Patton
CinematographyRobert Elswit[1]
Edited byPaul Hirsch
Music byMichael Giacchino
Lalo Schifrin (themes)
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • December 7, 2011 (2011-12-07) (Dubai)
  • December 16, 2011 (2011-12-16) (United States(IMAX))
Running time
133 minutes[2]
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$145 million[3]
Box office$274,623,744[3]

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is a 2011 action spy film, and the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, and is director Brad Bird's first live-action film.[4] Ghost Protocol was written by André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, and produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams (director of the third film) and Bryan Burk. It is the first Mission: Impossible film not produced by Paula Wagner, and the first of the series to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras. The film was released in North America on December 16, 2011, to positive reviews.

Plot

On assignment in Budapest to intercept a courier working for a person of interest code-named "Cobalt", IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed by an assassin named 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. Partway 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 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 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 Sidirov, 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.

The exchange between Moreau and Hendricks's right-hand man, Wistrom, 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 that Wistrom is actually Hendricks in disguise, escaping with the codes—Carter detains Moreau. Moreau attempts to kill the inexperienced Dunn, and Carter throws her out a window to her death. 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 in Croatia. While Brandt was on patrol, 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.

Bogdan and his arms-dealer cousin inform Hunt that Hendricks will be in Mumbai. Hendricks facilitated the sale of a defunct Soviet military satellite to Indian telecommunications entrepreneur Brij Nath, which could be used to transmit the order to fire a missile. While Brandt and Dunn infiltrate the server room to deactivate the satellite, Carter gets Nath to reveal the satellite override code. But Hendricks has anticipated Hunt's plan and turns off Nath's servers before sending a signal from a television broadcasting tower to a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific to fire at San Francisco. Hunt pursues Hendricks and the launch device while the other team-members 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. Hunt is then confronted by Sidorov, who sees Hunt has stopped the missile, proving the IMF is innocent in the Kremlin bombing.

The team reconvenes weeks later in Seattle. Hunt introduces the team to longtime colleague Luther Stickell, and then issues new assignments. Dunn and Carter accept, but Brandt refuses. Hunt reveals Julia's death was staged, as he knew he could not protect her, and used her death as a pretext to infiltrate the prison and get close to Bogdan, an IMF source on Hendricks. Relieved of guilt, Brandt accepts his mission while Hunt watches Julia from afar. They share a smile before he embarks on his next mission.

Cast

Source unless otherwise noted:[1]

Production

"When we were first looking at the image of Tom climbing the Burj, in the long shots we could not only see the traffic in the reflections when he presses down on the glass... But you actually saw the glass warp slightly because of the pressure of his hand. You would never see that in 35mm. The fact that the screen fills your vision and is super sharp seems more life-like."
 — Brad Bird describing the advantages of filming in the IMAX format.[7]

The film was originally announced with a working name of Mission: Impossible 4, and codenamed "Aries" during early production.[8] By August 2010, title considerations did not include the Mission: Impossible 4 name, and thought was given to omitting the specific term "Mission: Impossible", which Variety compared to the Christopher Nolan's Batman film titled simply The Dark Knight.[9]

The film was partially shot with IMAX cameras, which made up approximately 30 minutes of the film's runtime.[10][11] Bird insisted that the film be shot in IMAX, as opposed to 3D, as he felt that the IMAX format offered the viewer more immersion due to its brighter, higher quality image, which is projected on a larger screen, without the need for specialised glasses.[12] Bird also believed that IMAX format would bring back "a level of showmanship" to the presentation of Hollywood films, which he believes the industry has lost due to its emphasis on screening films in multiplexes as opposed to grand theaters, and vetoing "first runs" in favor of wider initial releases.[12]

Principal photography took place from October 2010 to March 2011.[1] Filming took place in Dubai, Prague, Moscow, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Vancouver.[13][14][15] Tom Cruise performed a sequence where Ethan Hunt scales the outside of the Burj Khalifa tower, which is the tallest building in the world, without the use of a stunt double.[16] Although Cruise appears to be free solo climbing in the film with the help of special gloves, in reality he was securely attached to the Burj Khalifa at all times by multiple cables.[1] The cables were then digitally erased in post-production by Industrial Light & Magic. Following Cruise's example, Patton and Seydoux also chose to forego the use of stunt doubles for their fight scene at the Burj Khalifa where Carter exacts her revenge upon Moreau for Hanaway's death.[1]

Many of the film's interior scenes were shot at the Canadian Motion Picture Park in Vancouver, including a key transition scene in a specially equipped IMF train car and the battle between Hunt and Hendricks in a Mumbai automated multi-level parking garage (which was constructed over a six-month period just for the film).[1] The film climax scene was shot in Sun TV office, Chennai, India.[17] However, the film's opening Moscow prison escape scenes were shot on location in a real former prison near Prague.[1] The film also features a BMW i8 concept car.

Soundtrack

The score for the film was composed by Michael Giacchino, his second for the franchise and his third collaboration with Bird following The Incredibles and Ratatouille. The soundtrack will be released by Varèse Sarabande on January 10, 2012.[18]

Track listing

  1. Give Her My Budapest (1:57)
  2. Light The Fuse (2:01)*
  3. Knife To A Gun Fight (3:42)
  4. In Russia, Phone Dials You (1:40)*+
  5. Kremlin With Anticipation (4:12)*+
  6. From Russia With Shove (3:37)*
  7. Ghost Protocol (4:58)*
  8. Railcar Rundown (1:11)*
  9. Hendricks' Manifesto (3:17)*
  10. A Man, A Plan, A Code, Dubai (2:44)*
  11. Love The Glove (3:44)*
  12. The Express Elevator (2:31)*
  13. Mission Impersonatable (3:55)
  14. Moreau Trouble Than She's Worth (6:44)
  15. Out For A Run (3:54)
  16. Eye Of The Wistrom (1:05)
  17. Mood India (4:28)*
  18. Mumbai's The Word (7:14)
  19. Launch Is On Hendricks (2:22)
  20. World's Worst Parking Valet (5:03)*
  21. Putting The Miss In Mission (5:19)*
  22. Mission: Impossible Theme (Out With A Bang Version) (:53)*
  • (*) Contains Mission: Impossible Theme by Lalo Schifrin
  • (+) Contains "The Plot" by Lalo Schifrin

Release

Following the world premiere in Dubai on December 7, 2011,[19] the film was released in IMAX and other large-format theaters in the US on December 16, 2011,[20] with general release scheduled for December 21, 2011.

Critical reception

As of December 29, 2011; the film has received positive reviews, scoring 93% on the film-critic aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 174 reviews, making it the best-reviewed entry of series. The site's critical consensus is, "Stylish, fast-paced, and loaded with gripping set pieces, the fourth Mission: Impossible is big-budget popcorn entertainment that really works."[21] Metacritic gives the film a score of 74 based on 36 reviews.[22]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying the film "is a terrific thriller with action sequences that function as a kind of action poetry".[23] Philippa Hawker of The Sydney Morning Herald gave the film three stars out of five, and said it is "ludicrously improbable, but also quite fun."[6] As Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly analyzed, the movie "brims with scenes that are exciting and amazing at the same time; they're brought off with such casual aplomb that they're funny, too. ... Ghost Protocol is fast and explosive, but it's also a supremely clever sleight-of-hand thriller. Brad Bird, the animation wizard, ... showing an animator's miraculously precise use of visual space, has a playful, screw-tightening ingenuity all his own."[24]

Dan Kois of Slate.com, commenting on the film's craftsmanship and context, said, "Along with [being] many other things — a crackerjack action picture, a smoothly operating product-endorsement machine, a useful guide to the obscuring of Cruise's annoying persona via millions of dollars of special effects — the fourth 'Mission: Impossible' movie also functions as a primer on how to use IMAX technology to immerse an audience. The scenes on the Burj gave me more vertigo than Vertigo."[25]

Box office

As of December 28, 2011, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol has grossed $274,623,744 with $94,643,000 from North America and $179,980,744 from international markets.[3]

In limited IMAX release of just 425 locations in North America, it earned $12.8 million over its opening weekend which topped Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason's record of $8.7 million for the highest-grossing opening weekend in less than 600 theaters.[26] Internationally, it debuted to a $69.5 million in 42 markets representing approximately 70 percent of the marketplace. In the United Arab Emirates, it set an opening weekend record of $2.4 million. In two countries outside the US in which filming took place, its opening weekend gross increased by multiples over the previous installment: In Russia, more than doubling to $6.04 million, and in India, quadrupling to $4.0 million[27].

Accolades

Award Category Recipient(s) Result
IGN Summer Movie Awards[28] Favorite Trailer Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists[29] Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star Paula Patton Pending

See also

References

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  18. ^ Varese Sarabande - Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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  29. ^ "Alliamce of Women Film Journalists Awards 2011". Movie City News.


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