MI3 started, but Ghost Protocol continued taking the franchise to a whole other level

Rating: 8/10 (27 July 2018)

It's amazing to see, how the Mission Impossible franchise evolved over the years. Today, it's something completely diferent to what it was back in the 90's, but this evolution was, in a certain way, fluid. MI3 kind of started to change the "franchise's focus" back in 2006, after an awful MI2, and Ghost Protocal definitely continued that.
Cruise, once again, it's incredible, this is where he is comfortable, he knows what he is doing, and man, he knocks out of the park. I love it. The whole supporting cast is amazing again. With one addtion here, this is probably the first time since MI1 that we actually see a team really working on the field with him (like, fighting and stuff). Paula Patton is great, the addition Simon Pegg to the main cast was a hit too, and Jeremy Renner is also amazing. Regarding to cast, probably the only thing that you could say was "missing" here was Ving Rhames, but I don't, they might have had a good reason for that.
And, you knew what was coming, we need to talk about the stunts here. Besides a couple of weird look CGI scenes (like the explosion), the movie is MIND BLOWING. The building scene... man! What a gorgeous sequence. I was really scare just to imagine how the f#ck they shot this thing. Man, it's just fantastic, the chasing scene that follows it is also amazing. And really, this movie opened up the path for what we saw in Rogue Nation, and will probably see on Fallout, just and increasing amount of mind blowing sequences shot by Cruise (WITHOUT STUNTMANS). Really, where will this franchise end up? Movie by movie, I just can't imagine how they will improve from the last one, and they always do!
Well, probably the main issue here is the villan. There isn't much to say about it, it's just a bad guy, that is bad because... he is. There isn't depth at all, and well, this is probably what the franchise has showed us is its main difficult, the only great villan we had was in MI3, and besides that, you kind of forget the other movies' villans. But the rest is great, so it holds up.
To sum up, Ghost Protocol is a great movie. The Mission Impossible franchise is fantastic. It proves itself more every movie, in order to be without a doubt the best action franchise of all time.
8,5/10