Entertaining enough.

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2011)

It seems that all the franchises in Hollywood have become mixed up in the past ten years. Die Hard IV and and MI2 have disguised themselves as Bond movies, while the Bond series have shifted to a new role model, the Bourne franchise. I would actually feel more comfortable, if this movie would be sold for Bond (from Pierce Brosnan Era), then being MI4.
MI4 is too exaggerated, much things left to chance, and it's unnecessarily funny.
MI movies were always walking on the brink of reality. Having "maybe existing", "probably existing" or "could be existing" gadgets. And same goes about the personal skill. MI4 has taken the clearly unbelievable path, having gadgets designed for Bond, and agents with Batman skills.
When a man hits his head from a 1 story fall, he would probably end up in a hospital, skull fractures. With such logic chain, Ethan Hunt should have died several times during this film. This fact alone will give away the credibility for this movie.
The chance factor has too much weight. There was actually no mission that was executed as planned. Too many faults occurring. One of them is actually accepting Benji as a field operative. Though he's funny, that's not what I've expected from MI4.
Another, unusual detail in this movie, is that Tom Cruise character doesn't get angry. Showing his anger is one of Tom Cruises characters' trademarks, and appears in most of his movies (and all of the previous MIs). Most of these were because he took issues personally, which doesn't seem to exist in MI: Ghost Protocol. It also looks as if despite Ethans age, the action takes less effort from him, so he doesn't look so tense. On the other hand, maybe it's because he knows that the stunts are so unreal, and he's not trying to be too serious about it.
Beyond the said above, it's entertaining and never boring. The Dubai scene is amazing. Both the mission plan and the action looks cool. And though the light, funny mood doesn't suit, based on previous installments, my expectation from MI, it is funny. So compensated fairly.
MI3 was my favorite, having interesting missions, amazing action and a superb villain. MI2 had nothing beyond it's relatively good action. MI1 had great missions, an OK action but was too complicated. Considering, that the MI movies don't have a certain standard, MI4 is fine and worth it's cinema ticket.