Not bad

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2012)

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is a decent action movie/spy thriller (even with an odd title that sounds like some kind of video game) but not something necessarily to see in the theater, would make a good DVD rental I think.
Tom Cruise stars once again but this time with a slimmed down team of only a few associates, with a hackneyed plot about some mad man who wants to set off a nuclear war by launching a nuke and hoping a chain reaction will occur. Really? How unoriginal can they get. Come on already. Surely they could have come up with something fresher than this.
Despite the boring villain and retread plot, the movie shows off exotic locations in a nice panorama and the action scenes are on the whole pretty good, but not mind blowing. Tom Cruise still has star power, but the other actors in this film came off as dull to me and their characters were a letdown. I didn't really care about any of the characters except Ethan Hunt. To sum up - M:I 4 is worth a rental, but not something required to rush out and see right now.